Thank you, Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses for being here.
During the study we heard several witnesses express their concern with our current system of inadmissibility on security grounds, arguing that our security provisions are overly broad and this ends up capturing the wrong people, with possibly devastating consequences to their lives. One of the key findings of the Auditor General's November 2011 report concluded that visa officers did not have access to updated tools to help in their inadmissibility determinations. Some of the challenges discussed in committee included the lack of timely information, the lack of danger assessments prior to inadmissibility determinations, and an inconsistency between the indicators of admissibility and actual security threats to Canada.
My first question is, could you please comment on these gaps in our current admissibility system?