Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members.
The Canadian Bar Association is pleased to appear before this committee today to address Bill C-43.
The Canadian Bar Association is a voluntary association of 37,000 lawyers across Canada whose primary objectives include improvement in the law and the administration of justice.
It is in the spirit of this mandate that the members of our immigration law section have analyzed Bill C-43 and made the comments that we have submitted to you in writing and will speak about today.
Michael Greene, a member and past chair of the immigration law section, is with me today, and I'll turn things over to him to address the substance of our comments on the bill.