Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, meeting number 15.
The orders of the day, pursuant to the order of reference of Wednesday, April 22, 2009, are that we consider Bill C-291, an act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, in particular the coming into force of sections 110, 111, and 171. This is a private member's bill of Monsieur St-Cyr.
We have before us ministry officials. The deputy minister is here, Richard Fadden, who has distributed his presentation to you. I will let him introduce his colleagues, if he wishes to.
Members, the procedure would be that Monsieur St-Cyr would start the proceedings for ten minutes and Mr. Fadden would continue for another ten minutes. Then we would have questions up until ten o'clock at most, when questions would end and we would start clause-by-clause consideration of the bill. If I don't hear any objection to that, it will be the procedure.
Monsieur St-Cyr, you have the floor.