Good evening, everyone.
Colleagues, welcome.
Welcome to our witnesses here today.
We are following up on our study of Bill C-51. This will be our second meeting today. This will be meeting number 55 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.
With us for the first hour we have three witnesses. We have, from the National Airlines Council of Canada, Mr. Marc-André O'Rourke, executive director. We have as an individual, Craig Forcese, associate professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. We have Kent Roach, professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, and we are welcoming him by way of video conference. We're actually not apologizing for keeping him on delay in that he's gloating when he's sitting at a course in Clearwater, Florida, at this particular time. Welcome, Professor Roach.
We will go now to opening rounds of statements for up to 10 minutes. The chair and the committee would certainly appreciate it if you can keep your comments as brief as possible. It will allow us more time for questioning.
We will start off with Mr. O'Rourke. You have the floor, sir.