I bring to order the seventh meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.
We are continuing our study on systemic racism in policing.
I point out, colleagues, that we are about 40 minutes late starting, and one of our witnesses had to leave. She has agreed to come onto the second panel. Mr. Paul has graciously agreed to come up into the first panel.
Mr. John Paul from Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat is on our first panel. Along with him are Christopher Sheppard and Jocelyn Formsma from the National Association of Friendship Centres.
Colleagues, I'm going to be a little arbitrary here to speed things up. I'm going to chop a minute off all speaking times, both for the witnesses and the questions, and maybe we can make up a bit of the time that we're behind. This voting stuff is really cutting into the committee's time these days.
With that, I'll call Mr. Paul to be the first person giving testimony. Mr. Paul, to make it a bit easier, from time to time you can look up at the chair, and I'll try to signal you when you have two minutes and one minute left. I know that initially we said we would give you seven minutes, but with the time constraints we're under, could you confine your remarks to six minutes?
Thank you, Mr. Paul.