I think we will bring it to a close right there. I want to thank you for coming before the committee with a very, very interesting presentation indeed. Thank you.
We've kept the Canadian Bar Association and the Law Society of British Columbia and the Canadian Society of Immigration Practitioners waiting for over an hour. We do apologize for that. We'll try to get under way within a couple of minutes. We invite you to come to the table and we will get on with it.
I just want to inform the members of the committee, while I have a moment here, that Ms. Grewal has invited everyone to supper at her house—the entire committee, that is--approximately half an hour after the meeting.
I want to welcome to our meeting, from the Canadian Bar Association, Mr. Alex Stojicevic; from the Law Society of British Columbia, Carmel Wiseman, who is a lawyer for the policy and legal services department; and from the Canadian Society of Immigration Practitioners, Nancy Salloum, chairperson, and Elie Hani, vice-chair.
Thank you for coming. Sorry to keep you waiting, but we got off to a very shaky start. If you were here, you saw that.
In the meantime, you know what the procedure is, and I'll pass it over to you, Alex.