We'll call the meeting to order.
I want to welcome all of you again as we continue our cross-country meetings tour that we've been on now for about a week and a half. Today we're in the great riding of Scarborough—Agincourt, and that's the riding of my colleague Mr. Karygiannis here. I want to thank him, on behalf of the committee, for the invitation to be here today.
As you're aware, we're the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. We've been mandated to hold meetings right across the country on three different topics: temporary and undocumented workers, Iraqi refugees, and the immigration consultants issue.
We're going to be meeting in all the provinces, finishing up in mid-April sometime in St. John's, Newfoundland. We've met in Vancouver, Saskatchewan, Edmonton, Manitoba, Waterloo, and now we're here in Toronto for a couple of days. We will move on to Montreal, Quebec City, Fredericton, Halifax, and St. John's. So we have quite a schedule for ourselves.
At the end of it all, we will have met with about 52 panels. We have our officials with us, who will, in the final analysis, when it's all over, write a report to make recommendations to government about what we're hearing here today and what we hear as we go.
I want to welcome you as panellists here.