Good afternoon, everyone. This is meeting number 19 of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, on Thursday, May 27, 2010. The orders of the day are pursuant to the order of reference of Thursday, April 29, 2010, Bill C-11, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and the Federal Courts Act.
For the first hour today, we have officials from the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. We have Peter MacDougall, who is the director general of refugees. In fact, I think I recognize all these names; I think everybody has been here before. We have Jennifer Irish, director of asylum policy program development; John Butt, manager of program development; and Luke Morton, who is senior legal counsel and manager of the refugee legal team, legal services. You all have very long titles, but that's good.
Mr. MacDougall, I've spoken to you earlier. I'd like to welcome you and your colleagues to the committee. I think you're going to make a brief presentation of up to 10 minutes. Then my colleagues may have some questions for you.
I'd like to welcome all of you to the committee.