Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank everyone for taking the time to be here today. I'd like to echo my colleague's opening remarks by saying that, especially for those of you who are working in the Philippines under incredibly difficult circumstances, we wish you all the best, and we hope staff is well and safe, and as well through you, we wish to offer our sincere condolences to the people of the Philippines on this incredible tragedy that has beset the country.
As you can imagine, we have a very large, dynamic Filipino community in Canada that is anxious about news, news about their families, and also very anxious about the new regulations that the Canadian government has offered to deal with this extraordinary situation.
I'd like to ask our friends from Manila, first of all, if you could say what impact the typhoon has had generally on your operations, and if indeed you have had an increase in applications for temporary visitor visas in the aftermath of the typhoon.