Yes, they were. Thank you.
Carrying on with our witnesses, we have officials as well. From the Department of Justice, we have Shalene Curtis-Micallef, deputy minister and deputy attorney general of Canada, and Heather Watts, deputy assistant deputy minister. From the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, we have Shawn Tupper, deputy minister, and Richard Bilodeau, director general. From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, we have Mark Flynn, deputy commissioner of federal policing. Finally, from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, we have Sarah Estabrooks, director general of policy and foreign relations, and David Vigneault, director.
Thank you to all for being here today for this study and on such short notice.
I now invite Minister LeBlanc to make an opening statement of up to five minutes.
Please go ahead, sir.