I call the meeting to order.
This is the 26th meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
Today we are starting a study of human rights commissions. We have two sets of witnesses before us today. First, we have David Langtry, deputy chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. He is accompanied by Sébastien Sigouin, who is director of the policy and international relations division, and Monette Maillet, who is director and senior counsel of the legal advisory services at the Human Rights Commission. They will be followed by Alan Borovoy, from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
I just want to alert members from all parties to the obvious time constraints it puts on us within a window of one and a half hours. I'm going to have to be pretty ruthless in keeping our questions and responses short in order to allow both sets of witnesses to be heard from fully. What I propose is that we have a single round of questions, rather than the normal two rounds after each set of witnesses. Even so, it's going to be tight, and I ask for everybody's cooperation.
That being said, I welcome our witnesses.
I would ask, Mr. Langtry, that you please feel free to start. Thank you.