I'd like to bring this meeting to order.
This is meeting 6 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. We are continuing with our study of Bill C-3, an act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act on certificate and special advocate and to make a consequential amendment to another act.
We have a number of witnesses we'd like to welcome this afternoon. We have the law or bar association from Quebec. We have also the Canadian Bar Association and the Federation of Law Societies of Canada.
According to the information I have, you agreed among yourselves that the Canadian Bar Association would go first, then the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, and last of all the Barreau du Québec.
The usual practice at this committee is to allow approximately ten minutes for an opening statement from each of you. Then, of course, we go to rounds of questions and comments.
If you're ready to begin, please introduce yourselves briefly, and then go ahead with your presentation.