I call to order the 51st hearing of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, on this 22nd day of March 2011.
We are televised.
We have a witness today, Rachel Gouin from Inter Pares, but before I turn the floor over to Madame Gouin, I have a couple of things to draw to the attention of members.
The first item is that sometimes we let this run late. Today we will not let our meeting run late, because members have to get from this room way down the road to Centre Block in time for question period, and there is no way of doing that unless we wrap things up exactly at two o'clock. For that reason, I'll be seeing the clock as exactly what the clock is instead of as the imaginary clock in my head that we sometimes use.
We will have a little green bus waiting at the exit to take us. At 2:00 p.m. we're going to wrap it up and everybody will get upstairs. Like the marines, we leave no one behind, unless, unlike the marines, I see that someone is taking too long, in which case we do leave without you. Consider yourselves warned.
The other thing to mention to you is that Mr. Sweet has a motion, which is receivable. I understand there have been some consultations. I'll turn things over to Mr. Sweet.