Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
I call this meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development to order. We are pursuing our study on human rights in Cuba. Last year, some representatives of the Christian Labour Association of Canada and the Forum of the Americas came to testify on this issue.
Today, our witnesses represent the Cuban Canadian Foundation, the Social Democrat Party of Cuba, Cuba-Nouvelles, the Table de concertation de solidarité Québec-Cuba and the Caravane d'amitié Québec-Cuba.
We welcome all of our witnesses. Because we have so many on our panel today, I'll ask you to be relatively brief in your opening statements. That will give opportunities for the members of the subcommittee to pose questions. Our normal practice is to listen to the witnesses in the order in which you are listed on the agenda.
I invite the representatives of the Cuban Canadian Foundation to begin.
Mr. Taylor Sol or Mr. Sablon.