We're going to start the first hour this evening. We have two witnesses before us.
Mr. Van Kessel, I'm going to read this, and it's going to take a long time to say all this. Gerry Van Kessel is the former director general, refugees branch, Department of Citizenship and Immigration, and former coordinator, intergovernmental consultations on asylum refugee and migration policy, Geneva. Welcome to the committee, sir.
The second witnesses are on video conference from Toronto. The Mennonite New Life Centre of Toronto representatives are Jordan Pachciarz Cohen, settlement worker, and Maria Eva Delgado Bahena, refugee. So there are two of you.
We will start off as I think I explained to you when we were off the record. Each of you will have up to seven minutes to make a presentation and then there will be questions from committee members.
Mr. Van Kessel, welcome to the committee. We thank you for coming, and you have up to seven minutes to make a presentation to us.