I'd like to call this meeting to order.
This is meeting number nine of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. We are continuing our examination of Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (certificate and special advocate) and to make a consequential amendment to another Act.
We welcome our witnesses this morning. I presume that those who aren't here will show up in the next little while, but I think we'll go ahead and begin.
We have with us the Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee. I'll ask you, gentlemen, to introduce yourselves. Then we have the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations and Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui.
The usual practice at the committee, gentlemen, is that we allow you an introductory statement of approximately 10 minutes, and then we'll have questions and comments from the people who are on the committee.
We'll ask the people for the Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee to introduce themselves.
Gentlemen, you may begin.