Good morning, colleagues, and welcome to meeting 49 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.
Today under orders of the day we will be dealing with employment and skills training for offenders.
We have three witnesses with us today. From the Correctional Service of Canada we have Don Head, the commissioner. We have Fraser Macaulay, the assistant commissioner, correctional operations and programs. From CORCAN we have Lynn Garrow, the chief executive officer.
Welcome to all of you.
We will of course have opening statements for up to 10 minutes from our witnesses today. After that we will have our rounds of questioning. The chair will try to find a few minutes at the end of the meeting, 15 minutes or so, to go to committee business to see if we can get our schedules arranged for the future, knowing that we have some challenges with witnesses. But of course we can bring them up, and the committee can make its decisions as to what it wants to do and where it wants to go. We have a little budget issue that we will bring up asking for your approval on committee business as well.
Now we will open the floor to opening statements. Let's go ladies first. Would you like to make a statement? If you would not, we will move to Mr. Head.