Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks, again, to you, sir, Mr. Ambassador, for returning to this committee. I would remind my colleagues that you were here in February of last year, and it's a pleasure to welcome you here again.
I would like to touch on something that occurred last night on Parliament Hill. We were able to meet with Masih Alinejad and Nazanin Boniadi, as well as others from the Alliance for Democracy and Freedom in Iran. We were, several members of the government and of the Senate, encouraged as parliamentarians to use the term “gender apartheid”. I noticed that you, Ambassador, used that very term here today before our committee.
Can you expand on the importance of using that term, and perhaps give us some sense of whether it is being used to an increasing extent at the United Nations and in other international fora?