I'd like to bring this meeting to order. This is the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. This is meeting number 47, and today we are continuing our study of the witness protection program.
We would like to welcome individuals via teleconference. We welcome the senior associate director, Office of Enforcement Operations, Criminal Division, the United States Department of Justice, Mr. Gerald Shur. Welcome, sir.
We would also like to welcome via videoconference, from the University of Dundee, Mr. Nick Fyfe, the director of the Scottish Institute for Policing and Research and professor of human geography.
Can you hear us, sir?