Thank you very much.
We do appreciate your coming. I think all members of Parliament are being lobbied, and rightly so, by constituents who are concerned about what's taking place in Sudan. I received, just in the last couple of days, 23 letters, I believe from the Walk for Darfur Club at Augustana, University of Alberta, calling on Parliament to take a look at what's going on there and to take action.
We passed a motion, brought forward here, to do a study on Sudan, and this committee is intent on doing that and making some very specific recommendations to the government. It's a comprehensive study on what's taking place in Sudan and Darfur, the plight of Darfur. Like many Canadians, we certainly look forward to making those recommendations.
Thank you for being here and helping to kickstart that study, although we have already been taken with the crisis in Sudan.
We are going to suspend now, and then we're going to move into committee business for a very short period to discuss a budget. We'll just give our guests the opportunity to exit.
We'll also ask that we stop the televised portion of this meeting.
[Proceedings continue in camera]