Thank you, Mr. Clerk.
We will carry on with our study. If technical difficulties make it impossible to continue, we will have to consider suspending and possibly rescheduling this particular witness.
Today we have two panels of witnesses. We will probably have time for about 45 minutes per panel. For our first hour, our witness Madam Cukier, president of the Coalition for Gun Control, is having trouble connecting. Online we have, as an individual, Mr. Francis Langlois, professor and associate researcher, Observatoire sur les États-Unis of the Raoul-Dandurand chair of strategic and diplomatic studies.
Monsieur Langlois, let's start with your five-minute statement.