Good afternoon, everyone. This is meeting number 29 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. It is Thursday, March 8, 2012.
This afternoon we're continuing our study on the use of electronic monitoring in both the corrections and conditional release settings and in the immigration enforcement setting with a view to determining effectiveness, cost efficiency, and implementation readiness.
I want to remind our committee that towards the end of today's meeting we will have time to consider some committee business. Each hour is going to be cut back a little bit. We will end the first one between 4:15 and 4:20. The second one will begin at 4:20 and will end at 5:10. That will give us enough time for committee business.
In our first hour we have, from the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Claudette Deschênes, assistant deputy minister for operations, and Caroline Melis, director general of operational management and coordination.
I understand there is an opening statement. We look forward to hearing from you. Then we'll have a few questions for you.
Welcome to our committee.