Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
This is the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, meeting number 10, Thursday, April 22, 2010. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we continue our study of immigration application process wait times.
We have three witnesses before us this afternoon. Thank you for coming, gentlemen. You will each have up to ten minutes to address the committee on this topic. Following that, there will be questions from the committee--or generally there are--and each caucus will have for the first round up to seven minutes.
I will ask Pierre Emmanuel Paradis, who is the senior economist for the Analysis Group, to address us first.