I'm going to call the meeting to order, with our apologies to our witnesses for our absence for voting.
I'm going to suggest to the committee, and we'll see if we have its approval, that we hear first from the Paramedic Chiefs of Canada and the Paramedic Association of Canada, as planned, and then when Mr. Head arrives, to hear from him as well. We'll have three 10-minute presentations. The RCMP has only two minutes of comments because they've spoken about these issues before, so that would be 30 minutes of presentations, and then 45 minutes of questioning. I'm only concerned that we could invite the Correctional Service of Canada folks back, because they're Ottawa-based, but I want to give full time to the paramedics to make sure. Is that a good solution for today?
We'll try to get the whole meeting done. If Mr. Head arrives, he won't have heard the first two presentations. However, he has prepared remarks, so I don't think he's going to adapt them anyway.
We're going to begin with the Paramedic Chiefs of Canada, and then we'll have the Paramedic Association of Canada with Mr. Poirier. We will begin with Mr. Mellow and Mr. Charbonneau.