I call the meeting to order.
Colleagues, welcome to meeting number 22 of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on Thursday, October 22, 2020, the committee resumed its study of the vulnerabilities created and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
As always, to ensure an orderly meeting, I ask all participants to mute themselves when they're not speaking and to address comments through the chair. When you have 30 seconds remaining in your questioning or speaking time, I will signal you with a piece of paper. Interpretation is available as usual through the globe icon at the bottom of your screen.
Before welcoming our witnesses, colleagues, I would like to seek unanimous consent from members to proceed with the meeting until there are 10 minutes of bells remaining on the vote, in order to maximize the committee time with our last panel for this segment of the study.
Does the committee give its consent to proceed in that fashion? The clerk will signal us when there are 10 minutes of bells remaining. Are there any objections, colleagues?
Seeing none, that's carried. Thank you very much.
I would now like to welcome the witnesses.
We have with us this afternoon Justin Mohammed, human rights law and policy campaigner, Amnesty International Canada; Paul Champ, lawyer, Champ & Associates; Alex Kamarotos—