Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to start the second hour this evening.
We have appearing before us the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, the Honourable Jason Kenney. With him is the assistant deputy minister, strategic and program policy, Les Linklater; the director general, refugees, Peter MacDougall; the senior legal counsel manager, refugee legal team, legal services, Luke Morton; and last but not least, the director, asylum policy program development, Jennifer Irish.
Now, all of you appeared before us at the beginning of these sittings. With the exception of the final hour, which will be the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada and the Canada Border Services Agency, our hearings will be concluded. After that we will start clause-by-clause.
Minister Kenney, I assume you've been listening to some of the presentations to date and that you'll have some comments to make to some of those presentations. We would like to hear from you now. Thank you for coming, Mr. Minister.