This is meeting number 32 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.
Today, as a result of a motion presented, this meeting is dedicated to discussing threats posed to Canada's national security by individuals returning to Canada from having been involved with terrorist entities abroad, including the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. We have our witnesses gathered here today.
We thank you very much for attending.
Of course, we have with us the Honourable Steven Blaney, the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. We also have, from the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, the deputy minister, Mr. François Guimont. From the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, we have Mr. Michel Coulombe, director. And from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, we have Commissioner Bob Paulson.
Welcome, gentlemen. We certainly do appreciate your coming here today. As we do know, this is of global interest and, of course, of serious Canadian interest. We thank you for your appearance today.
Minister Blaney, I believe you have an opening statement.
You're on, sir.