Our meeting will now come to order.
I want to welcome the witnesses today to our committee hearing on the loss of Canadian citizenship for the years 1947, 1977, and 2007.
Our hearing will go until about 1:10 or 1:15 today. At that time we have to go in camera to deal with committee business.
We have witnesses from the Lost Canadian Organization, from the Mennonite Central Committee Canada, and we have several other individuals who are appearing as well.
I want to welcome all of you.
We have quite a number of people. I think it has been agreed to give each individual about three to five minutes for an opening statement. Then the committee will engage you in questions and comments and what have you.
I'll pass it to you, as witnesses, and you can make your opening statements.
Thank you. We will begin with Mr. Janzen. Go ahead, sir.