Welcome to the 21st meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
We have today a number of witnesses, and they have an order in which they'd like to make their presentations to us.
Reverend Majed El Shafie is the president of One Free World International. He'll be going first.
I will go through the remainder in the order in which they will present. Our second presenter will be Chantal Desloges, an immigration lawyer. She will be followed by Peter Bhatti, the president of International Christian Voice. The fourth presenter will be Suzanne Tamas, director of the office of government relations for the Baha'i Community of Canada. The final presenter will be Firidon Zia, who will be making a presentation through his interpreter, Dany Yousif.
I want to mention as well that we are going to have to save some time at the end of this meeting for a number of items that have to be dealt with in camera, and we'll have to play that a little bit by ear, but we will have to give ourselves a fair bit of time--I think at least 20 minutes. That will unfortunately necessitate all the things that go along with going in camera.
As a final note, this is just a reminder to committee members that our clerk has arranged for us to have lunch, and you are free to help yourselves to some food. I do not intend to suspend any of our hearings to give time for the food. You have to make your own provisions in that regard given the shortness of time.
Before going to our witnesses, Madame Deschamps, go ahead, s'il vous plaît.