Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to start the meeting. This is the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. We are studying Bill S-7, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and a number of other pieces of legislation.
Things will be a little bit unusual today because the bells are going to ring at 10:05 and our committee will then adjourn. I have taken the liberty, as chairman, to put all of you on one panel, which is why this is all happening. I'm going to introduce you in a moment. That will leave, for the second panel, just the witness from London, England, who is appearing by teleconference.
Welcome to all of you, on behalf of the committee, and thank you for participating.
We have Professor Sharryn Aiken from the faculty of law at Queen's University, and Elsii Faria, a consultant in marketing and communications. We also have Aruna Papp, president of Community Development and Training. We have Tamar Witelson, legal director, and Silmi Abdullah, program lawyer, from METRAC Action on Violence.
You each have up to eight minutes to make a presentation to the committee and then the committee will have some questions for you.
We'll start with you, Ms. Papp.