I'm sorry. The letter is from Krista Gray-Donald, director of advocacy and awareness with Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime, who is unable to be with us today because of an illness. She had hoped that she would be able to attend. She is not here.
I apologize to Ms. Rosenfeldt, who is the president of Victims of Violence. She is sitting off to the side here. We certainly do welcome you again here to the Hill and to our committee.
Many of you are aware of how we conduct business in this committee. We will give each of you time for an opening statement and then we will move into the first round of questioning, which is a seven-minute round. All subsequent rounds after that are five-minute rounds.
Perhaps we'll just work our way across. Maybe, Ms. Rosenfeldt, we'll start with you and work our way this way, if that's all right.
Ms. Rosenfeldt.