Good morning. I'm very pleased to call to order this 93rd meeting of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration.
Today we are very delighted to have with us Ambassador William Swing, from the International Organization for Migration, an organization with which Canada has had a strong relationship for over a half a century. Mr. Swing is shortly completing his second term as the head of this international organization. We're delighted he is taking time to come to Canada, both to continue to build the partnership we have in that international organization and to meet with our committee.
I thought this was a wonderful opportunity for us to have insights offered by someone with decades of work on migration, and we're hoping to look forward as much as to look to the past. We welcome you.
The way our committee will work is we invite you to deliver remarks and then we will ask you questions and engage in a conversation.