Good afternoon, everyone.
This is meeting number 24 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Tuesday, February 14, 2012.
Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.
Today we are continuing our study on the use of electronic monitoring in both a corrections and a conditional release setting, as well as an immigration enforcement setting, with a view to determining effectiveness, cost efficiency, and implementation readiness.
In our first hour we will hear from the Department of National Defence. Appearing before us, as you see here today, is Mr. Anthony Ashley, director general at the Centre for Security Science, Defence Research and Development Canada. We also have Mr. Pierre Meunier, portfolio manager, surveillance, intelligence, and interdiction, Centre for Security Science, Defence Research and Development Canada.
Welcome to our committee.
I understand we have an opening statement from Mr. Ashley. We look forward to those comments, and then we will go into a round of questioning.
Mr. Ashley.