Good afternoon. Welcome, everyone.
This is meeting 44 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, Wednesday, December 1, 2010. Today we are continuing our study on issues surrounding security at the G-8 and G-20 summits.
Towards the end of our meeting today, at approximately 5:15, our committee will go to committee business, if that's still the wish. It was at the end of last meeting, so our intentions are that we will go to committee business at 5:15 today.
Appearing as witnesses, we have with us, from the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, Jenilee Guebert, director of research, G-8 and G-20 groups; from the Movement Defence Committee of the Law Union of Ontario, Mike Leitold, member; from the Department of National Defence, Brigadier General John Collin, chief of staff of Canada Command; and from the Peel Regional Police, Superintendent Brian Adams.
I understand that each one of you has an opening statement for our committee today. Hopefully we can hold those statements to approximately ten minutes each, and then we would proceed into the first and subsequently the second round of questioning. The first round of questioning will be a seven-minute round for each party.
We look forward to your statements, and looking across the panel, Ms. Guebert, if you would begin, we would appreciate it.