Colleagues, we'll give the media time to leave the room, please, with the cameras.
Welcome to meeting 52 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. I welcome my colleagues back from their ridings. Certainly we welcome Commissioner Paulson here today.
Just as a little backgrounder for my colleagues, on Tuesday evening, March 3, I received a request from Commissioner Paulson to convene this committee meeting on Friday, March 6, at 11 a.m. for a period of one hour, to publicly display and discuss a video connected to the terrorist event here on October 22. As this had previously been requested with a motion passed by this committee, early on Wednesday morning I had a brief discussion with the clerk and subsequently sent out a notice of this meeting. I should also note, of course, just from a point of interest, that a similar motion had been passed in the Senate.
Today we will allot Commissioner Paulson approximately 15 minutes to make the presentation, offer some comments, and present the contents of a video. For the balance of the hour, we will have committee Qs and As in our traditional period of questioning: a first round of seven minutes, split however the committee membership decides, and then five minutes to committee members until the expiration of that hour.
The chair would also note that as per the request of Commissioner Paulson and as is also contained in the original motion, today's meeting is public and will be televised. Of course it is carried on the House of Commons broadcasting network. That is for everybody's information.
I will now turn the floor over to Commissioner Paulson for his presentation.
Welcome again, sir.