Good morning.
We will begin our meeting. A couple of members are a bit tardy this morning. They're doing interviews and should be along fairly soon.
I want to welcome Annette Landman, Canadian certified immigration consultant and president of Eastern Canada Immigration and Job Consultants Incorporated. Just for your information, Annette, we're the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration of the House of Commons, and we've been mandated by the House to study three very important items: temporary foreign workers, immigration consultants, and the Iraqi refugee problem.
We've been meeting in all provinces. We will be meeting here today and tomorrow in Halifax and the following day in St. John's, Newfoundland. We will have heard approximately 52 panels. So for your information, at the end of the process our officials along with the committee members will compile a report, and we will present that report with recommendations to the minister and to the House of Commons. The recommendations will be based upon what we've been hearing as we go, from these 52 panels. So welcome to you.
We had a chat beforehand, and you know the drill. Generally we have an opening statement of about seven minutes, but since you're only one witness, feel free to forget about that rule and make your presentation and if you want ten minutes or so you go right ahead.
Thank you for coming, and we're all ears.