Welcome, committee members, to this meeting requested by four committee members.
I've just been notified by the clerk that as per the rules of committees, it is the responsibility of the vice-chair to take the chair. I'm not certain how that relates to the discussion that just ensued, but I've just been given that notification, sitting in the chair now, that that is the normal practice of committee business, so this is veering away from committee business.
The purpose of the meeting today, as requested by four committee members, is that the committee discuss their request to undertake a study to consider the threat to Canadians created by the reported failure to confirm the identities of passengers travelling by air.
That is the purpose of the meeting. I might just say that I will, as chair, hold people responsible to speak to this issue and not to other issues. If committee members decide to veer off this issue, I will interrupt you and stop you from proceeding on to other subject matter.
This is the subject matter. This is why we were called here and why we are constituted today.