Mr. Chair, I will start, and then Mr. Langford will continue.
Mr. Chair and honourable members, we're very pleased to be here today on behalf of the immigration law section of the Canadian Bar Association. The CBA is a national organization, and the members of the immigration law section, numbering over 1,100, practise in all aspects of immigration and citizenship law in all parts of Canada.
The primary objectives of the Canadian Bar Association include improvement of the law and improvement in the administration of justice. It's in that optic that the letter you have before you has been prepared, with the specifics of the changes that the immigration law section would like to see.
With that, I will hand it to Mr. Langford to deal with the substantive matters in our submission.