Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
This is the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, meeting 14, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. The orders of the day, pursuant to the order of reference of Thursday, April 29, 2010, are to consider Bill C-11, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and the Federal Courts Act.
For the first hour, we have a number of witnesses, a number of guests.
From the Canadian Council for Refugees, we have Wanda Yamamoto and Judy Dench...or not “Judy” Dench--I'm thinking about somebody else, sorry about that--but Janet Dench, executive director.
From Amnesty International, we have Claudette Cardinal, who is the coordinator of refugees, Canadian francophone section; and Mike Bossin, the chair of the anglophone section.
Good afternoon to all of you.
Our fourth guest is not present, but I'm going to assume he will be soon.
Each of you has up to seven minutes to make a presentation.
We will start with the Canadian Council for Refugees, and I trust that one of you will speak.