I call to order this meeting, which is the 75th meeting of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration.
We are considering our order of reference, which was received in November, on a study of immigration to Atlantic Canada, known as motion number M-39.
We welcome our witnesses, who are here to provide their expertise and their thoughts on the fairly critical and important question of attracting and retaining immigrants to Atlantic Canada.
With us today we have two witnesses joining us by video conference, and Mr. Poschmann, who is here in person.
I would like to start with the video conference—and the committee will get to know me—because I've had it disappear from time to time, so let's begin there.
We're going to start with Mr. Dykstra, who is with the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, for about seven minutes.