Today is March 10, 2011, and this is the 50th meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development in the 40th Parliament.
Today we are continuing to look into the implications of the State Immunity Act.
We have two witnesses with us today, one in the room and the other by teleconference. We'll ask each to make an independent presentation, and then we'll go to questions. The questions will be directed at both witnesses.
At the end of this, I propose we shorten the time for questions slightly in order to allow us to deal with a couple of motions that were brought up by members of the committee and see if we have consensus on them. Rather than dealing with these items of indeterminate length at the front end, I'm suggesting we do it at the back end. Is that acceptable to everybody?