Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being with us again. I know it takes significant time out of your workdays to be here, and I hope there's value added by our getting the legislation correct down the road, to make up for the time you give to us.
I want to start with some questions to the Public Safety officials.
In your presentation this morning you talked about the legislative mandate, saying, “Only the federal program is legislatively mandated to provide national protection services....” But you also talk about the federal program handling the “more serious cases”. Can you talk about how this has come about where the federal program will only handle serious cases if it's the only one with the legislative mandate?