Thank you very much. It's really an honour and a privilege to have this invitation. I'm grateful for it.
Given the ambit of the study, I would like to use my opening statement to talk about five points in the hopes that these points will cover some areas that will be of interest to the committee.
The areas I will talk about are a recent study on refugee exclusions, immigration detention in Canada, gender in Canadian immigration law, human rights in the security context, and lessons from Australia.
Prior to coming to the University of British Columbia a decade ago now, I was for five years a faculty member at the University of Sydney, where I also taught immigration law and refugee law. I completed my PhD as well in Australia.
Before I continue, can everyone hear me?