Welcome, witnesses and colleagues, to meeting number 41 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.
Today we have, of course, two hours of testimony and statements and questions. For the first hour we'll have three witnesses. For the second hour we'll have three witnesses also. In the second hour two of them will be joining us by video conference.
I would just bring to the attention of the committee that while of course we always have opening statements of up to 10 minutes and we generally limit them to that in order to allow time for questioning, I've been advised by one of our witnesses that his opening statement would be substantially longer. He has agreed to abbreviate his statement but he would like his full statement put into the record so that it is available to the committee to be evaluated. You're not going to hear his full statement. You'll hear his abbreviated version, and of course in Q and A you can ask him about anything. His full statement will be available to the committee for observation.
[See appendix]
Mr. Scott.