Bonjour, chers collègues. Good afternoon.
This is meeting two of the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 17, 2010.
I would encourage all members of this committee, if they wouldn't mind, to turn off your blackberries or cell phones or whatever.
In our second hour, just for the sake of the committee members, we wanted to let you know that we'll go to committee business to consider a number of things--first of all a motion that's been brought forward, and also the first report of the subcommittee on agenda and procedure and the plan for our future business.
In our first hour, we will continue the committee study on the transfer of Afghan detainees. As our witness this afternoon, we have Mr. Paul Champ, legal counsel of Amnesty International.
Mr. Champ, I didn't get an opportunity to meet you before, but we welcome a brief opening statement and then we'll proceed to questions from the members of our committee.
Again, welcome. If you have an opening comment of five to ten minutes or whatever, I know the committee members look forward to getting into a bit of a discussion and questions and answers with you.