Good morning.
This is the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, meeting number 40, on Monday, May 7, 2012. The orders of the day, pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, April 23, 2012, are Bill C-31, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and other acts. This meeting is televised.
We have our first panel with us today; it has two members. We have Professor Catherine Dauvergne. She is the Canada research chair in migration law at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law.
I understand you have a PowerPoint presentation, which we'll be watching.
Professor Sharryn Aiken, good morning to you. She is from the Faculty of Law at Queen's University. I went there, but I think it was so long ago my picture is down in the basement.
It's a pleasure to have both of you here. You each have ten minutes to make an introductory statement, and then there'll be questions from the committee.
Professor Dauvergne, you may proceed first.