I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 32 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. Today, we will continue our study on application backlogs and processing times.
I would like to welcome our witnesses for this panel today. In our first panel, we are joined by Rabea Allos, director, Catholic Refugee Sponsors' Council; Vikram Khurana, chairman, Toronto Business Development Centre; and Oliver Thorne from the Veterans Transition Network.
All witnesses will have five minutes for their opening remarks. Then we will go into rounds of questioning.
I would request that Rabea Allos, director of the Catholic Refugee Sponsors Council, please begin.
You will have five minutes for your opening remarks.