Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, may I make a brief statement?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, we would certainly be prepared to be sworn in. I'd just point out that to have witnesses sworn in is not a regular event, and indeed this committee has not previously sworn in witnesses on this matter. I think it's also important to remind members that our role as ci

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll have opening statements and my colleague Clark Goodman will also have a short opening statement, and then we'll get to questions.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, honourable members, my name is Mark Davidson and I am the director of legislation and program policy in CIC's citizenship branch. As you can imagine, I have followed the work of this committee closely over the past several months as you have been exploring issues of c