Mr. Chairman, we are pleased to be here, and I thank you on behalf of the German-Canadian Parliamentary Friendship Group.
We are a group of about 50 members of the German parliament, representing all five parties. We have a delegation here of six members--only five at the moment--from four different parties. We've had a wonderful three days in Ottawa with a lot of appointments and meetings.
We've met Minister Finley, Minister Baird, and Minister Bernier. We've talked about Afghanistan, about climate change, about a lot of other things, and we've talked about immigration and citizenship.
I think this is an important appointment, and it's the last appointment of our stay here in Ottawa. We will go to Montreal tomorrow morning.
Let me continue in my mother tongue.