I call the meeting to order.
It's Monday, October 23. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), this committee is studying systemic racism and religious discrimination.
We have two witnesses for this hour. We have Serah Gazali and Narges Samimi from Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House in British Columbia, and then we have Mr. Balpreet Singh from the World Sikh Organization of Canada.
Mr. Singh will join us via video conference, so that's why his name is here, but he isn't. We will come to him when his time comes.
I want to explain to the witnesses here the usual format. You have 10 minutes as a group—you can divide it into five minutes and five minutes, or one of you can be the spokesperson for the group—but no more than 10 minutes. Then we will go to a question-and-answer segment. Hopefully Mr. Singh will be here by that time so that we can go straight to him after you have finished.
We will begin for 10 minutes, and I will give you a two-minute warning.