Good afternoon, everyone. This is the 25th meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. It is Thursday, February 16, 2012. Today we are continuing our study on the use of electronic monitoring in both a corrections and 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 welcome back to our committee the Commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada, Mr. Don Head.
Again, we want to thank you for appearing before our committee and, I would say, for always being willing to come to our committee. You have appeared on other studies numerous times and we are very thankful for that.
I understand that you have an opening statement. I think it has been circulated to each of us. We look forward to your comments and then to the questions that can arise from them.