Good morning, colleagues.
This is meeting number 35 of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, Tuesday October 27, 2009.
I'm just going to remind our colleagues that we're going to break a little early today to hold a brief steering committee meeting that will answer some of the questions we had in our last meeting, and that'll be just across the hallway. That's not for the entire committee, but it is for the steering committee. But the committee then will be adjourned early today.
Our orders of the day include a return to our committee study of Bill C-300, An Act respecting Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas in Developing Countries. Witnesses are in attendance this morning from 9 o'clock to 9:45.
We welcome back Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International. Welcome to our committee again. And sharing the panel we have, from the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, Michael Casey, the executive director, and Ryan Worms, the education and research officer.
We'll proceed right into your comments and then we'll go into our rounds of questioning. We look forward to what you have to say.
Mr. Casey.