Good morning, colleagues. Welcome.
This is meeting 33 of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, Thursday, May 29, 2008.
Today we're continuing our consideration of our subcommittee's draft report on the Canada-China bilateral human rights dialogue.
We will hear testimony today by video conference. In our first hour, appearing as an individual, is Reverend Jian Miller Zhuang. He was born in south China and was a young communist and youth leader. He came to Canada in 1981. Since 1996 he has travelled back to China a number of times, working on social and community development with orphans, youth factory workers, and youth at risk; working in recovery programs with men; doing family and marriage enrichment; and providing consultation and counselling to China law enforcement personnel.
Via the new technology, we're very pleased to welcome Reverend Jian Zhuang with us this morning.
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