Mr. Chair, I'll be very brief.
First of all, I want to thank both of you for coming here on such very short notice.
When we hear, both from the witnesses today and from other reports, of the demonization of the Bahá'í people, the language that has been used, the identification and monitoring of the Bahá'ís, and the arrests that have taken place of people of that faith, this is incitement to genocide. It really is the beginning stages. This is what we have witnessed in many other countries, and it's very frightening.
Canada, as the champion and author in many ways of the responsibility-to-protect doctrine, has an obligation as well to be proactive. It's not just incumbent on this committee, which has adopted the motion that was put forward last Tuesday, but I think this also requires Parliament to give its stamp of approval and of concern. I would hope that from this meeting we would be able to ask the foreign affairs committee to adopt the motion that was adopted at this committee and that we would be able to have a debate in the House of Commons so that the House of Commons could also pronounce itself publicly on this issue.
That's a statement and also a motion.