Good morning, everyone.
This is meeting number 72 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, Tuesday, February 26, 2013. Today our committee meeting is being televised, so I would encourage all members to turn off their cellphones or at least mute them.
We're having a briefing this morning on the report into issues of workplace harassment within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Our first witness this morning is from the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP. The interim chair of the commission, Mr. Ian McPhail, is here.
We welcome you, sir.
We also welcome Richard Evans, the senior director of operations, and Lisa-Marie Inman, the director of reviews and investigations.
We thank you for appearing again before our committee. It's very much appreciated, as is the timely report that you've brought forward for us to study.
I would invite the chair to make an opening statement before we proceed into the questions and, hopefully, the answers for our committee.
Mr. McPhail, please begin.