Colleagues, witnesses, ladies, and gentlemen, welcome to meeting 59 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.
Today, pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, February 23, 2015, on Bill C-51, we will be continuing our study and hearing from our witnesses.
I will introduce the first group of witnesses we have before us tonight. From the Council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow, we have Raheel Raza, president. From the Canadian Labour Congress, we have Hassan Yussuff, president, and also David Onyalo, acting director, anti-racism and human rights. From the Mackenzie Institute, we have Andrew Majoran, general manager, and Brian Hay, chair of the board of governors.
Welcome, all. Each group will have an opportunity to make opening remarks for up to 10 minutes. You can divide your own time amongst yourselves if you have multiple representation. We will go ahead and start now. Of course, if you can be more brief, that will give us more opportunity for Q and A from our parliamentary members here today.
We will start off with the Council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow.
Raheel Raza, you have the floor.