Thank you.
On behalf of my colleagues--Navjeet, who is sitting behind me, and Zenia, who will be co-presenting--I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to present the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto's position on undocumented workers. Our submission focuses primarily on policies affecting undocumented workers, a group that can more broadly be described as non-status immigrants.
We have been doing work with community groups and academics around undocumented workers. In May of 2008 we will be releasing a report documenting barriers to public education for children of non-status families in Toronto. Last year, in a partnership with the Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre, we released a multilingual guide listing services for non-status immigrants. Because of our work with community groups, academics, and non-status immigrants, we have become keenly aware of the need for a regularization program in Canada that will provide non-status immigrants with a direct path to landed status and citizenship as well as other crucial changes to Canadian immigration policy.
I will now turn it over to Zenia.