Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on February 25, the committee will resume its study on family reunification.
We have three witnesses before us. I wanted to give the committee members a heads up. There is a video link-up with Effat Ghassemi from the Newcomer Centre of Peel that's having some difficulty.
We will proceed with the other witnesses and, hopefully, by the time the other witnesses' presentations of 14 minutes in total are done, we'll have that link in place.
We have before us here today Mr. Alex LeBlanc from the New Brunswick Multicultural Council. He's the executive director. Welcome. As an individual, by video conference, we have Jeffrey Reitz, Professor, R.F. Harney Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, University of Toronto. Welcome, gentlemen.
We'll start with seven minutes from Mr. Alex LeBlanc.