Order, please.
As we continue our cross-country meetings, I want to welcome here today Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier, a research associate of the Canada Research Chair on the International Law of Migration, University of Montreal.
As you're aware, we're the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration of the House of Commons. We've been mandated to hold hearings on three very important items--temporary and foreign workers, immigration consultants, and Iraqi refugees. We will be meeting, hopefully, in all the provinces. We started in British Columbia and we're working our way east. Today it's here, and tomorrow Fredericton and Halifax, and on to St. John's, Newfoundland.
We're going to hear, by the time we're through, about 50 panels of witnesses who want to present their views on any of these items that we have been mandated to hear. Our committee, as you're aware, is made up of representatives from all parties in the House of Commons.
We want to welcome you and thank you for coming here today to make your views known. Generally when we have a panel, we will allow about seven minutes for individuals to present, and then we'll go to committee members who might want to make comments or ask questions. In your case today, of course, it's only one, so I don't think we're going to hold you to seven minutes.
You have a presentation to make, and we'd be very pleased and happy to hear your presentation. At the end of it all, we're going to write a report for the House of Commons, for the minister, with the help of our officials. We will be making recommendations to the minister on these three items that we've been mandated to hear. I would imagine these recommendations will be based upon what we've been hearing as we go.
So it's all yours. Take it away.
Thank you.