Order, please. If the media wish to scrum, they can do it after the meeting.
Welcome to meeting number 43 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.
Today, we are doing supplementary estimates (B), so I will read the order as presented.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we have a study of the subject matter of the supplementary estimates (B) for 2014-15: votes 1b and 5b under Canada Border Services Agency; vote 1b under Canadian Security Intelligence Service; vote 1b under Correctional Service of Canada; vote 1b under Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness; votes 1b, 5b and 10b under Royal Canadian Mounted Police; and vote 1b under Royal Canadian Mounted Police External Review Committee.
Appearing today before us as witnesses, for the first hour we have the Honourable Steven Blaney, the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. Accompanying him now and for the second hour, from the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, we have François Guimont, deputy minister.
From Canada Border Services Agency, we have Luc Portelance, president; from Correctional Service of Canada, we have Don Head, commissioner; from Canadian Security Intelligence Service, we have Michel Coulombe, director; from the Parole Board of Canada, we have Harvey Cenaiko, chairperson; from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, we have Deputy Commissioner Mike Cabana, deputy commissioner of federal policing.
Welcome to all of our witnesses. Thank you very kindly for coming here today for this study. We will proceed with an opening statement, up to 10 minutes, should there be one, and after that we will go directly to questions from our members.
Minister, do you have an opening statement?