Colleagues, I'd like to bring this meeting to order.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we will have a briefing with the appropriate officials from Global Affairs Canada to provide members with an update on current concerns within their mandate related to foreign affairs and international development.
If I mess up your name when I introduce you, please feel free to correct me. That's a northern prerogative. We tend to slip up on names around here.
Vincent Rigby is the assistant deputy minister of strategic policy.
Alex Bugailiskis is the assistant deputy minister of Europe, Middle East, and Maghreb.
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