I want to thank the ministers and their officials for attending this meeting this morning and for their input.
Back in the 1920s my grandparents were experiencing terrorism in what was then known as the Soviet Union. They were refugees in Canada during that time. We've been thankful ever since that the government allowed my grandparents to immigrate here under the refugee program.
One of the things that is of interest to me is with regard to the changes being made to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
In terms of some of the amendments that this bill proposes, can you clarify why they are needed and why those changes are being made?