Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
I call to order this meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
We continue this morning our subcommittee's study of the Canada-China human rights dialogue.
We will be hearing from a panel of witnesses today, all of whom, I believe, are signatories to a joint letter sent to the Prime Minister last month asking the Government of Canada to review, and indeed I think suspend, the Canada-China human rights dialogue.
Today we have with us Ms. Carrie Wilson and Ms. Mickey Spiegel from Human Rights Watch, and Mr. Stephen Benedict from the Canadian Labour Congress.
We also have Ms. Luisa Durante of the Canada-Tibet Committee, and Mr. Richard Elliott, from the Canada HIV/AIDS Legal Network.
Mr. Mohamed Tohti, President of the Uyghur Canadian Association, was also to be here today, but we decided to invite him to appear at the next committee meeting.
We'll begin with presentations from our witnesses and then follow with questions. I'd like to invite Ms. Spiegel to begin.