Good day.
This is a meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
For the first hour, we will be hearing from witnesses—the last ones, I hope—in connection with our study of human rights in Cuba. We will then move on to other committee business. Among other things, I would like to update you on the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development's report on China.
We'll begin with our witnesses before us today, Mr. Peter Boyle from the Kingston and District Labour Council, and Mr. Hynd, former District 6 director of the United Steelworkers. They are here to present to us on the issue of human rights in Cuba.
Gentlemen, the standard practice is we have a few minutes for your verbal presentations. We try to limit that to ten minutes, and then we take rounds of questions, beginning with seven-minute rounds of questions from, I suspect in this case, Mr. Silva.
I invite Mr. Boyle to begin. Thank you for coming.
Go ahead, Mr. Boyle.