I'd like to welcome everyone here this afternoon. This is meeting 11.
The orders of the day, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), are to follow up on the briefing by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration on its role in the Government of Canada's response to the earthquake in Haiti.
We have the pleasure to have with us representatives from the Hamilton Haitian Association, the National Council of Citizens of Haitian Origin, and Église Baptiste Nouvelle Jérusalem.
Welcome to you all.
Some of you have probably appeared in front of a committee before. We will give you five to seven minutes to make remarks. Thereafter we will engage in a question and answer session.
We will begin with Mr. John Abrams, a member of the Hamilton Haitian Association, and with Bernard DuBois, vice-president.
Welcome, and please proceed.