Colleagues, I'd like to bring this meeting to order.
Pursuant to the order of reference of Thursday, April 14, 2016, and section 20 of the Freezing Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act, our statutory review of the act continues.
This afternoon two witnesses will be joining us.
Mr. Thomas Juneau is here in person. He is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa.
We also have Richard Nephew, who is the senior research scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University. He's on video conference from New York, New York.
Welcome to both of you.
As per our process, we will allow you to make some opening comments, and then we'll go into questions from the committee members.
Mr. Juneau, I'll start with you. Then we'll go to Mr. Nephew. Then we'll go to questions from the committee members.
I'll turn the floor over to you, Mr. Juneau