In the second half of our meeting today, we're going to continue our committee's business study of Bill C-300. Today we are going to hear from Rights and Democracy: Rémy Beauregard, the president of Rights and Democracy, and Carol Samdup, senior adviser, economic and social rights. Also, we'll hear from OTD Exploration Services: we have William McGuinty, the president of that group. And from Harvard Law School, we have Tyler Giannini, lecturer on law, International Human Rights Clinic.
Most of you sat through the opening hour and you probably understand how we proceed in this committee. We look forward to your comments, and then we'll proceed into the first round of questioning.
If we do have five minutes at the end, basically to talk about direction on the treatment of Canadians abroad, that is what we need a theme on in order to invite guests on that theme. At that point maybe we could get a few ideas from the committee.
I'll open the floor to Mr. Beauregard, please.