Good afternoon, everyone.
This is meeting number 58 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. It is Wednesday, November 7, 2012. Today we are dedicating a meeting to the subject matter of clauses 264 to 268, affecting the 2001 Customs Act.
These clauses, as you know, are part of Bill C-45, A second Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 29, 2012 and other measures. These are the clauses of Bill C-45 that are under the purview of our committee.
Our witnesses today will help us examine these clauses. They are from the Canada Border Services Agency.
We welcome to our committee, first of all, Mr. Daniel Champagne, director general of infrastructure and environmental operations; Ms. Kristine Stolarik, the director general of the pre-border programs directorate; Ms. Anita Henderson, counsel with the legal services branch; and also Ms. Sharon McKeen, manager of the travellers unit, advance information and programs.
Our committee thanks these witnesses for testifying today. Once again, we have Canadian public services responding to our call on short notice to help us as the committee go through these clauses that are part of the implementation act. In our final 30 minutes, we will have a discussion of possible recommendations and amendments based on what we have heard today.
Mr. Champagne will be bringing forward the testimony, and we look forward to that.
I see that you have a printed text and it is not that long. We are going to try to keep it as short as possible so that we have ample time for questions and then ample time to draw up our recommendations.
Welcome.