I call the meeting to order.
We do have a quorum, but we do not have any guests here.
I would ask the committee to very quickly take their steering committee report. We will go into committee business.
This is meeting number 49 of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on Thursday, April 19, 2007.
I am going to ask the committee members to pick up their 10th report from the subcommittee steering committee.
The steering committee met on Tuesday. We brought forward these matters, and we would ask that this committee ratify this. It would help our researchers and our clerk to prepare for witnesses to come in the future.
The first point is that the first report of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development be referred back to the subcommittee until such time as they have finished their discussions on this issue.
This first report was on the production of documents. This was the issue over the Burton report. The Burton report was given, and our subcommittee made a request to get the unedited version with the classified information affixed to it. The department came back to say they would provide the report but not the classified information. There was some concern as to the security of some of the names of those in China, so they refused. The subcommittee is still dealing with this, as far as I know.
Because the committee is still dealing with this--they had Foreign Affairs there and they had legal counsel there--at that time it was the steering committee's recommendation that we send this report back to the subcommittee.
Do we have a consensus on that? It is agreed.