Good morning everyone.
Pursuant to the order of reference of Tuesday, June 4, 2013, we are considering Bill S-14, an act to amend the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.
I want to thank our witnesses because they have now been back twice—they were supposed to testify before us on Tuesday.
Thank you very much. We do understand that you have busy schedules and so we appreciate your changing your schedules to be here.
It looks like we will once again have the bells within 20 minutes. Voting would be at about 10 minutes to 12:00, which means that we would not be back here until 12:05. I thought it would be helpful to get the testimony in now and then go a little bit longer, if it's okay with the witnesses.
We also will understand if you have other things that you need to do. At least we'll get the testimony in. We will come back and finish off with 30 minutes of questions and answers. If we can get you to stick around, that would be great.
I want to introduce each of our witnesses here today.
From the Canadian Bar Association, we have Noah Arshinoff, staff lawyer for law reform, and Michael Osborne, member of the CBA anti-corruption team. Welcome Michael. Thank you for being here.
From the North-South Institute, we have Joseph Ingram, president. Joseph, it's good to see you here today, sir.
Joining us from Calgary, Alberta, from Transparency International Canada, is Janet Keeping, chair and president. Thank you, Janet, for working us into your schedule. I think the last time we talked you were in Edmonton.