Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To the witnesses, thank you for attending today.
On this day of recognition of women in government, I'd like to inform the committee that we had three witnesses before the defence committee this morning. They were senior assistant deputy ministers from National Defence and Canada's foreign service, and they were all women. Today we have two women. So those people who think there aren't a good number of very able women contributing to the well being of our country would be mistaken.
Thank you for being here today.
My first question is based on some of the information you gave us, and there's a rhyme and reason to how I go down the questions. It's for either one or both of you.
Are you familiar with the statistics on the total number of people removed from Canada each year? If you don't know the exact number, perhaps give us an estimate.