This is the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. Today is April 29, 2010, and this is our 11th meeting.
We are currently pursuing a study of the Universal Periodic Review and have with us today two witnesses, who I'll introduce momentarily.
I want to remind all committee members, however, that today we're going to reserve the final 10 minutes of the meeting for committee business, as scheduled, unless there's objection to that. I'm drawing it to your attention because, of course, if you don't think it's appropriate, we can always adjust our schedule. The plan is to have the last 10 minutes of the meeting for committee business. What we're dealing with in terms of committee business are some issues relating to motions that have been put before us.
With that preamble, our witnesses today from the department are Tom Scrimger, assistant deputy minister, citizenship and heritage, and Liane Venasse, who is a manager of the human rights program at the citizenship and heritage sector.
I invite both of you to make your presentations, but I'll just ask you if you intend to present separately or will it be a single presentation?