Order, please. This is the 11 th meeting of the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
It is April 2, 2009.
Today we have a very distinguished witness. David Matas is the senior legal counsel for B'nai Brith Canada and has, in that capacity and other capacities, performed yeoman service on behalf of human rights issues in Canada, in addition to the many other things he's done.
I've had the pleasure of being involved...sometimes in a peripheral way. Nonetheless, I've been able to watch him work on the issue of human rights, particularly the rights abuses of Falun Gong practitioners in China. It's always a pleasure and always educational to listen to him.
I invite you, Mr. Matas, to give us your testimony now.