Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. This is the Standing Committee....
Could we come to order?
You know, Mr. Kennedy, you asked me if you could sit here. You can sit here, and you can participate, but when I say “order,” that means that we have to stop talking, okay?
Thank you very much.
This is the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, meeting 41. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we are here to study the immigration settlement and adaptation program.
We have four witnesses this morning from the Department of Citizenship and Immigration to help us with this subject. We have Dawn Edlund, associate assistant deputy minister of operations; Catrina Tapley, associate assistant deputy minister of strategic and program policy; Deborah Tunis, director general of integration; and Wally Boxhill, director of integration and resettlement program delivery.
Ladies, Mr. Boxhill, good morning to you. If you could give us a presentation of up to seven minutes, I know that members of the committee will then have some questions of you.
Ms. Edlund, the floor is yours. Thank you.