We are going to begin the 10th meeting of the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
I see our friends from the media are being very cooperative in departing. I appreciate that. These proceedings are televised, and I was told that some of the folks who are taking still photos will stay for a couple of minutes and then will depart. If they could do so in the least intrusive way possible, I would be most grateful.
We have with us today, and we give our thanks to, Lieutenant-Commander William C. Kuebler. I would just briefly say that Lieutenant-Commander Kuebler is the military counsel to Omar Khadr in his proceedings before the military tribunal. He has an impressive record in his own right, including the ultimate signal of importance in the early 21st century, which is his own article on Wikipedia. If you want to know more about him, you can go there, rather than listening to me.
He is joined today by Rebecca Snyder, who is Mr. Khadr's civilian counsel at the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel at the Office of Military Commissions. Welcome to both of our witnesses today.
We have our own rules of engagement today, which were agreed to by the committee at our meeting yesterday. The questions and answers will be five minutes, rather than the normal seven. That's to hopefully allow us to complete a first round and get at least partway through a second round of questions. We'll continue our questioning until shortly before two. Because of the fact that I'm cutting the questions quite short, I want to ensure that Lieutenant-Commander Kuebler is able to respond in a general sense to questions that may have been in the generality of the specific questions being asked. Then we can wrap up at two o'clock. If there is a consensus, we can go beyond, but it's worth considering the fact that individuals here will want to be able to speak to the media at the end of this hearing, and doing that and making it to question period in time might make it impossible to go beyond two o'clock. Be aware of the fact that I will be responsive to the will of the committee as to the time for adjournment.
Lieutenant-Commander, I wonder if we could turn things over to you.