Good evening. This is the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, meeting number 21, Monday, May 31, 2010. This is a three-hour session.
Pursuant to the order of reference of Thursday, April 29, 2010, we are considering Bill C-11, an act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and the Federal Courts Act.
I'm sorry for the delay, ladies and gentlemen.
We have three groups of witnesses. The first group is the Centre justice et foi, Elisabeth Garant and Louise Dionne. Welcome, ladies, to the committee. Thank you for coming.
We have the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants, Philip Mooney, the past president, and Timothy Morson, director of policy and certified Canadian immigration consultant.
By teleconference from Washington, we have a lawyer by the name of Howard Anglin. Mr. Anglin, this isn't televised; it's via telephone. As you can hear, we're having technical difficulties and we hope we can pull this off with you.