Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank the witnesses for joining us.
It is nice to see you in person, Minister.
I would like to ask you a question about the secret orders in council your government has adopted since 2015. We are talking about 72 secret orders in council. That is a marked increase compared with the number of secret orders in council adopted by Stephen Harper's Conservative government. Normally, to justify the adoption of a secret order in council, national or military security must be invoked, or it must be argued that the order in council is related to national security reviews of foreign investments in Canadian companies. More than half of those orders in council have been adopted since early April—