Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for appearing before our committee today.
Minister, one of the things I'm concerned about is the issue of oversight. If we were to continue these provisions, we'd be doing so without the government having moved at all on a series of recommendations going all the way back to Justice O'Connor, of course reinforced by Justice Iacobucci, and then reiterated in the Brown report on the RCMP pension scandal, repeated by the public safety and national security committee, and repeated by Paul Kennedy when he was then the RCMP public complaints commissioner.
Minister, where are we on this? We were told that the reason the government wasn't acting upon these recommendations that pertained to oversight.... As you should be aware, there are many departments, including Immigration, that have no oversight whatsoever. We were told the reason you were not acting was because of Justice Major's report. It's now been longer than six months since Justice Major's report has been out, and yet this government is still not acting on these recommendations, many of which are five years old.
Can you first of all inform us where we are on these oversight provisions?