I call the meeting to order.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
This is the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration meeting 46. Today is Thursday, March 3, 2011. The orders of the day, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) are for our study of immigration application process wait times.
We are continuing with this study and, of course, you'll see from the agenda that we're going to stop the meeting towards the end of the meeting, perhaps in the final five minutes or so. The subcommittee met, and we need to have the report of the subcommittee approved, so towards the end of the meeting we will go in camera to adopt that report.
We have three witnesses in total for the session today, and they have 40 minutes each. First of all, by video conference from Hong Kong, we have a number of witnesses from the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. Once again we have Mr. Gilbert, director general of the international region, who is here to help us.
Thank you, sir. You're a regular attendee at these meetings. Thank you for coming. I'm going to let you introduce your colleagues from Hong Kong. We appreciate their taking the time late at night there to appear and assist us.
Sir, you have the floor.