I'd like to bring this meeting to order. This is the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, meeting number 21. We are continuing today with our study of the taser.
We'd like to welcome to our committee, from the Commission for Public Complaints against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Mr. Paul Kennedy, the chair, and Mr. Michael MacDonald, director, strategic policy and research; and from the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner for British Columbia, Mr. Dirk Ryneveld.
Gentlemen, we welcome you to the committee, and we look forward to the testimony you will give us and the answers to the various comments and questions that will be coming.
The usual procedure here is to allow you an opening statement of 10 minutes or so, and then we start with the opposition questions and comments. It's a timed thing, with about seven minutes for each one, ending with the government side.
Mr. Ryneveld will start, so anytime you are ready, sir, you may begin.