Ladies and gentlemen, mesdames et messieurs, I'd like to bring the meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting 28 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. We're doing a study of contraband tobacco. We're looking at contraband tobacco, not in the sense of smoking and the ills of smoking—I don't think many of us here need to be reconvinced of that—but in the context of contraband. I'm sure that's been explained to the witnesses.
I welcome all of you, and the members.
If I could indulge the witnesses for one moment so I can do a bit of planning here, we understand that the minister will not be available to come to our committee next week within the context of our review of tasers. So I have a suggestion to make. The panel meeting that we had originally planned for the other stakeholders on the contraband tobacco question had to be cancelled because of the water problems on the Hill on Monday. So with your agreement, we'll reschedule that panel, if there's sufficient time, for this coming Monday.
Is that okay?
Mr. MacKenzie.