Good afternoon. This is the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, meeting number 18, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. According to the orders of the day, we are studying a report on strengthening the protection of women in our immigration system. This meeting is televised.
As you know, or maybe you don't know, the bells are going to ring at 5:15, so we will cut short both the first and the second hour. The first hour will end at 4:20.
We have three witnesses.
Representing the Metro Toronto Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic, we have Ms. Go.
We have a professor from the University of Ottawa, Christine Straehle.
We have the president of the Muslim Canadian Congress, Mohammad Khan.
Good afternoon. You each have up to eight minutes to speak.
Mr. Khan, we will have you go first.