Good afternoon, everyone. This is the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, meeting number 49, Tuesday, June 19, 2012.
This meeting is televised and is pursuant to Standing Order 108(2). We are studying “Standing on Guard for Thee: Ensuring that Canada's Immigration System is Secure”. In other words, it's a study of the security of the immigration system.
We have some guests who are appearing before us for the first hour. There are two groups. From Defence Research and Development Canada we have Pierre Meunier, who is the manager of surveillance, intelligence, and interdiction, Centre for Security Science. Good afternoon, Monsieur Meunier. From NextgenID Canada Inc. we have with us the senior vice-president of corporate and business development, Robert L. Bell. Good afternoon, Mr. Bell. Finally, also from NextgenID we have Ilan Arnon, vice-president of technology solutions. Good afternoon to you.
Each group will have up to ten minutes to make a presentation. Then members of the committee will follow with any questions they have, and I'm sure they will have some.
We will start with Monsieur Meunier.