I'd like to call this meeting to order.
This is the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. This is meeting number 17, and we are meeting pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) on a study of the report of the commission of inquiry on the events relating to Maher Arar.
Our witnesses today are from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Mr. Jim Judd, the director, and Ward Elcock, the former director. We would like to welcome you, gentlemen, to our committee. We look forward to the information that you will convey to us.
The usual practice of this committee is to allow you to have an opening statement of whatever length, usually ten minutes. If you need a little more time, that's not a problem. Then we'll begin with questions from the official opposition and move around to the government.
Thank you very much. If you're ready to begin, we await your statement.