Good afternoon, everyone. This is meeting number 49 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Wednesday, December 15, 2010.
I remind everyone here today that we are being televised. Today we are continuing our study of Bill C-17, an act to amend the Criminal Code, investigative hearing and recognizance with conditions.
We're pleased to have appearing before us today the Honourable Rob Nicholson, Minister of Justice. Appearing along with the minister are his officials from the Department of Justice: Donald Piragoff, senior assistant deputy minister, policy sector, and Douglas Breithaupt, director and general counsel, criminal law policy section.
In the second hour we will have others from the department--Glenn Gilmour, counsel, criminal law policy section. Some of them will be in here for our second hour today. We apologize to our minister and to others. As you know, we had votes in the House a little earlier.
We look forward to your comments, Minister, and we will give the floor to you. Then we will move into rounds of questioning.