Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The Canadian Bar Association is very pleased to appear before this committee today on Bill C-14, with these particular amendments to the Citizenship Act. We have addressed these issues before this committee before, in previous bills in previous Parliaments. Our written submission has been circulated to you in advance. Given the questions that you asked of the past witnesses, I know several of you have read it. We're glad to see that.
The Canadian Bar Association is a national association, with about 36,000 members across the country. The primary objectives of the organization are improvement in the law and improvement in the administration of justice. It is in that light that we have made our written submission and make our comments to you today.
I'm going to ask Mr. Green, who is a member of the executive of the citizenship and immigration law section, to address the substantive issues in the bill.