Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for their testimony. It's an area where in a multicultural society when different values, either religious-based or otherwise, are brought in together to a country we have to manage it. Part of managing this diversity or these differences is a sound basis for risk management in the entire immigration system.
In risk managing our immigration system, on one hand we need to rely on people who are doing this in good faith and who are actually bringing in a spouse because there's a genuine need, because there are probably closer customs or religious ties. On the other hand it also opens it up for a certain amount of abuse by those people who want to abuse the system.
What we have thought of in this conditional permanent residence is that in order not to allow people to outright abuse the system we put in the conditional residency to allow some settling-in time, and allow us to examine the case. This is just one of the tools. What I want to hear from you is on the entire immigration process from when the application starts in the home country, to landing, to the monitoring of the marriage to see whether it's bona fide or not over these two years. What other tools do we have as a country to ensure that this is a fair and equitable process?
Let's start with Mr. Mehdizadeh, please.