I call the meeting to order. This is the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, meeting number 23. It is Tuesday, February 28, 2012.
The orders of the day are pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the study on “Standing on Guard for Thee: Ensuring that Canada's Immigration System is Secure”. This meeting is televised.
We have one witness for the first hour. He is Martin Collacott from the Centre for Immigration Policy Reform. He's a former ambassador for Canada and a spokesperson for the centre. He has appeared before this committee a number of times.
In 2008 he co-edited, with Alexander Moens, Immigration Policy and the Terrorist Threat in Canada and the United States. He also wrote Canada's Inadequate Response to Terrorism: The Need for Policy Reform in 2006.
Welcome again to the committee, sir. We appreciate your expertise and your advising the committee. If you have a few words, we ask that you be no more than 10 minutes.
You have the floor, sir.