I'd like to welcome everybody to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development as we continue to work with the Rights and Democracy organization.
I want to take a second to thank all of our witnesses for being here today. I understand you all have very busy schedules and we've been trying to arrange times to get you here. It's great to finally have you.
Each witness has eight to ten minutes for an opening statement. Then we'll have a couple of rounds of questions and answers.
For my colleagues, we talked about maybe only going to 12:30. We will reschedule our subcommittee meeting agenda for another day so we can get through a couple of rounds of questions while we have the witnesses here. I hope that's all right with the witnesses as well.
I'm going to start with Dr. Gauthier. You have the floor for 10 minutes. Then I'll move it around. We'll get to the questions and answers after the opening statements.
Welcome. The floor is yours, sir.