That's wonderful. Thank you.
Mr. Goodale, can you hear me? Can you hear the interpretation?
Could you let me know that everything is okay? That's great.
Thank you for being with us today. I greatly appreciate it.
I understand that the members of the committee wanted you to be here, given that you were the Minister of Public Safety at the time these events began. However, I'm a little surprised that you're here, because I don't really know what we're going to get out of it.
Even in speaking with the current Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship and the current Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs, we have not managed to obtain a great deal of information due to the ongoing investigations. It is hard to obtain accurate information and understand what happened.
Perhaps I will instead ask you about your experience during the period when you were the head of the Department of Public Safety, about everything related to security screening and working with the Department of Immigration on similar cases, and about how things were going during that period.
During other committee meetings, a few members have said that your constituency offices receive a lot of requests for assistance with immigration files. It's very complicated, cumbersome and time-consuming.
I imagine that you follow Canadian immigration issues closely. Obviously, we want to prevent cases like this from happening again.
In your experience as Minister of Public Safety, were there improvements to be made in terms of co‑operation between departments, especially in terms of security screening?