Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, all of you, for being here today with us and for helping us conduct our study on family reunification. I want to take a moment to thank you again for all the work that you do. I am pretty sure myself and my colleagues want to thank you for all the work that you do in helping bring families together.
My first question will be to Ms. Wells. I am reading here from an article that says that a former caregiver's fight to bring family to Canada is dragging into its 17th year. It's regarding her children she was trying to sponsor from the Philippines. Would you say that maintaining a lock-in date would be essential for families?