Thank you very much to all of our witnesses for your public service and for your appearance before us today, adding to our deliberations. We very much appreciate it. If there are any further questions from the committee, I'm sure we could submit them to you in writing. Thank you, again.
As a closing point insofar as DFAIT has invited input on the policy review, obviously we hope the report of the subcommittee will be considered in that context as well. Thank you.
To my colleagues here, while we dismiss the witnesses, we have to discuss a little future business. I don't think we necessarily need to go in camera on this.
To be quick, we have Mrs. Rebiya Kadeer, who is the founder and president of the International Uyghur Human Rights and Democracy Foundation, appearing before us next week. I think we've scheduled an hour. Insofar as we had the Dalai Lama's representatives here for a special session, we've decided to give the same opportunity to the principal international spokesperson of the Uyghur people.
We had originally conceived having a second hour next week, adding a half hour to our usual meetings, to give an opportunity for representatives of the business community to appear before us to talk about the trade and economic dimensions of human rights. Last week there was some suggestion that we could perhaps add one or two academics as well. But we've had some difficulty scheduling some of these business groups and leaders because, for some reason, their schedules don't seem to mesh with our own schedule.
The only person I think we have confirmed is Professor Mendes, who's not from the business community, but it would be from an academic perspective. It was Mario's suggestion.
I want to question the utility of having a second hour if we can't get the business groups in front of us, as originally conceived.
For the committee's consideration and to get your direction, we keep punting this Cuba report down the field. I'd like to suggest for consideration that we take the second hour to go through the draft review prepared by our analyst in the hope that we could actually prepare the report before we adjourn for Christmas. It's one option.
Mr. Cotler has also given me verbal notice of a motion. He hasn't presented it formally yet, but it comes from his original discussion on the question of incitement to genocide by the Iranian regime. I thought we could alternately spend part of the second hour next week reviewing his motion.
Those are our options. We could go ahead with the semi-panel in the second half of next week, or we could leave it to a regular meeting with Mrs. Kadeer, or we could get into the Cuba report and/or Mr. Cotler's motion.
Mario.