Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
We have Colonel Jean-Michel Verney with us today, but I want to go over a couple of things before the colonel gives his testimony and we get into questioning.
We have some committee business to do, and so we will suspend questioning at 5:10 p.m.
For those who are new to our committee today, you'll find this committee tends to be more conciliatory and less constrained than other committees.
I would like to remind members that the time limit is on the questioner, the member of Parliament, and not on the witness. So when we are in the different rounds, the minutes assigned will be consumed by those questions and, of course, the witness simultaneously. Once the time has expired, the witness can continue to answer, but we'll then move on to the next member and party.
Madam O'Neill-Gordon.