The generosity of this committee knows no bounds.
Thank you, Mr. Julian and others, for intervening. We will do what we can. When I came into this room, I found it was very foreshortened. It's very strange. We're used to having a lot more room to spread out and wave our hands and stuff. Anyway, we shall continue with convening the meeting.
Welcome to meeting number 73 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. We will start by acknowledging that we are meeting on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin people.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the House order of June 23, 2022. Therefore, members are attending in person in the room and remotely by using the Zoom application.
I'm going to skip over some of this because we've all heard it before.
I remind members that all comments should be addressed through the chair.
Welcome to all the new people on the committee. I would like to thank all the people who are no longer on the committee for their service. This leaves us an opening for the Conservative vice-chair. We need to proceed to electing the Conservative vice-chair.
Mr. Shipley, do you wish to speak before that?