Good afternoon.
This is meeting number 12 of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, on Monday, March 30, 2009. We will continue with our hearings on the situation in Sri Lanka.
In our first hour we have Mr. Bruce Matthews, professor emeritus at Acadia University, and also Mr. David Cameron, professor of political science at the University of Toronto. We welcome you here today, and we thank you for coming to Ottawa and to our committee to testify.
As you know, our committee provides an opportunity for each witness to give an opening statement of approximately 10 minutes. Then we will go into our first round of questioning.
Perhaps, Mr. Cameron, we will begin with you. Thank you for being here.