We'll call the meeting to order.
This is meeting number 17 of the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan. Today we're again under the order of reference from Tuesday, February 10, 2009, and the two motions adopted by the committee on Wednesday, October 28, 2009, that the committee resume its study of the transfer of Afghan detainees from the Canadian Forces to Afghan authorities as part of its consideration of the Canadian mission in Afghanistan.
Today we have one witness, committee, and we're here until five o'clock. We have, from the Embassy of Canada to the People's Republic of China, Mr. David Mulroney , Ambassador of Canada to the People's Republic of China.