Evidence of meeting #77 for Foreign Affairs and International Development in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was countries.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Sylvain Abitbol  Co-President, Justice for Jews from Arab Countries
Stanley Urman  Executive Director, Justice for Jews from Arab Countries
David Matas  Legal Counsel, Justice for Jews from Arab Countries
David Bensoussan  Past President, Communauté Sépharade Unifiée du Québec

1 p.m.

Conservative

Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON

Yes, give us one example if you can.

1 p.m.

Past President, Communauté Sépharade Unifiée du Québec

Dr. David Bensoussan

There is the book entitled Juifs en pays arabe. Le grand déracinement 1850-1975, by George Bensoussan. There is also mine, called Il était une fois le Maroc.

1 p.m.

Conservative

Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON

Is this a relative of yours, Mr. Bensoussan?

1 p.m.

Past President, Communauté Sépharade Unifiée du Québec

Dr. David Bensoussan

No, not at all. He's from Algeria; I'm from Morocco.

1 p.m.

Co-President, Justice for Jews from Arab Countries

Sylvain Abitbol

We do have a lot of well-documented instances with names and situations—

1 p.m.

A voice

I have myself.

1 p.m.

Executive Director, Justice for Jews from Arab Countries

Dr. Stanley Urman

Two individuals who have stories, incidents, are coming to testify on Tuesday.

1 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Dean Allison

Thank you very much.

I apologize for not being here when you got started. I'm glad I got to hear some of the testimony. We do appreciate your time today.

To my colleagues, that's all for today.

With that, the meeting is adjourned.