Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to take a minute to apologize to witnesses. I won't get a chance to comment again, but the first panel of witnesses had Mr. Karygiannis making a comment that was completely unacceptable for both the individual who was sitting there, the department, the ministry, and quite frankly the government.
He actually apologized earlier in the year for a comment he made, and I took him at his word when he said he was going to learn from that experience and these type of comments weren't going to be made again. They were this morning, and I take his explanation as a half-hearted attempt to try to discard this. I personally won't accept that, because I don't think you have discarded it. As an individual, it's disappointing that you would do what you did.
You also made a comment that this continued to be something having to do with Africa, yet of the six countries that you include, you also include Port-au-Prince and Kingston, Jamaica. Those are not countries in Africa, so your comments are much wider than just toward one country and toward African people.
But hopefully getting back to more enlightening efforts that we're trying to make to actually build a better system, I apologize to you folks--