Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
This is meeting number 16 of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. This meeting is televised.
We have two items today. For the first hour, we have Minister Alexander as our guest to talk about the supplementary estimates. In the second hour, we are continuing our study on the report on the protection of women in our immigration system.
We will proceed.
Mr. Alexander, thank you very much for coming before us today with your guests.
We have with us Mr. Robert Orr, who was just here recently, and Mr. Linklater, of course, the assistant deputy minister, strategic and program policy, who has been here many times as well, as has Mr. Tony Matson, assistant deputy minister and chief financial officer. We also have with us the deputy minister, Ms. Biguzs.
The Honourable Chris Alexander is here.
You have the floor, sir, for up to 10 minutes. Thank you for coming.