Welcome to the 20 th meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
We have two sets of witnesses today. First, Alex Neve, the secretary general of the Canadian chapter of Amnesty International, will be testifying and then taking questions until 1:15. We then have Adèle Dion, director general of the human rights and democracy bureau at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and Victoria Berry, who is the deputy director of the human rights policy division. We also have with us two personnel from the Department of Canadian Heritage: Diane Fulford and Liane Venasse. They will also have 45 minutes.
This means that our witnesses are free to give their testimony at the normal length, but questions will have to be shorter. We'll have one round of questions, as opposed to two for each of the sets of witnesses.
I will just note here that, as always, my assistant has given me the Wikipedia articles on our witnesses, so I have Alex Neve's Wikipedia article in front of me. Actually, I've known Alex for a long time, and he's always a welcome guest, but I can't help noticing here that he had a birthday two days ago.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Neve. We welcome you here and invite you to start your comments, which, of course, are on the Human Rights Council report on Canada.