Good afternoon.
This is the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, meeting number 27, of Tuesday, March 13, 2012. This meeting is televised. The orders of the day are, pursuant to Standing Order 81(5), the study of supplementary estimates (C), 2011-12, votes 1c and 5c under Citizenship and Immigration.
We have before us today the Honourable Jason Kenney, who is the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism.
He has a whole bunch of staff, some of whom we recognize, and we'll let him introduce those people.
Thank you, Minister, to you and to your colleagues, for coming.
You have the floor.