Evidence of meeting #6 for Foreign Affairs and International Development in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was support.
A recording is available from Parliament.
5:45 p.m.
Latin America Program Manager, Inter Pares
Yes. She's a front-runner. On Sunday she was a front-runner, and there will be a second round.
5:50 p.m.
Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
Do you think your work could serve as a model for other countries, especially because of your involvement on a personal level in Guatemala?
5:50 p.m.
Latin America Program Manager, Inter Pares
I think that Inter Pares as a model would work. The name “Inter Pares” means among equals. I think that we're structured as a feminist collective. Internally, we have an interesting structure. A lot of our counterparts are very interested in knowing how we operate in a very non-hierarchical fashion. I think it's very important for us to be engaged in Canada—this is our country—as well as supporting counterparts overseas.
Ian was talking too about lessons learned. That's really important for us, to work with counterparts. We've been sharing experiences. We brought counterparts together from Burma and Colombia to talk about what is the peace process in Colombia and what are the challenges. When you bring people together things happen and you don't know where it's going to go, but they're really interesting things. I think as Canadians we have a really important role to play in our country in helping to bring these voices together.
5:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bob Nault
Thank you colleagues and thank you to our witnesses, Mr. Thomson and Mr. Fairbairn.
The hours go by quickly in this place, so we want to thank you very much for taking the time and making the effort to spend some time with our committee.
Colleagues, I want to remind you that Thursday we will have two witnesses on our first video conference of the session. That will be here and then in the second hour Minister Dion will be here. We will hopefully see you all on Thursday afternoon.
The meeting is adjourned.