Good morning, everyone.
I call this meeting to order. It's the 78th meeting of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. We're here to begin our study regarding medical inadmissibility of immigrants to Canada.
We want to thank the officials from the department today, especially for coming on relatively short notice.
We're going to begin with an opening statement from Ms. Edlund.
I want to let the folks know that in these kinds of meetings, I give the benefit of the doubt to the witnesses to make sure they get to explain a technical point well, so if we start to go a little bit over the time on the questions, it will be because I'm trying to make sure they're given time to get us all the best answers. That doesn't necessarily mean that I'll let you go on forever if you start a question at 6:52 on the clock, but I am giving some leeway on this kind of briefing.
We're going to start with Ms. Edlund's opening remarks. Thank you.