Evidence of meeting #52 for Subcommittee on International Human Rights in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was countries.
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, United Nations
Thank you very much, honourable members.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Scott Reid
For the rest of the committee, we have a motion that Mr. Silva has put forward to the committee. I'll turn to that now.
Liberal
Mario Silva Liberal Davenport, ON
Yes. It is that pursuant to Standing Orders....
Is everybody okay with the motion?
Conservative
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Scott Reid
Okay.
There is a high probability that this will be our last meeting of this Parliament. In an elegiac tone, let me take a moment first of all to say thank you.
Thank you to all the committee members. It has been a great pleasure to work with a group like yours in a non-partisan way. That's the exception here on Parliament Hill, and I would like to thank you all.
I want also to take a moment to thank other folks. As MPs, we are used to getting lots of credit for stuff, whether we deserve it or not. The translators and technical personnel don't get that chance, and we very much appreciate the fact that they run everything in a very competent manner, unsung. We appreciate it.
I see Mr. Hiebert applauding.
Likewise, our analysts; we have two excellent analysts with us. I get to work with them all the time. Melissa Radford and Erin Shaw are really fantastic.
Finally, we've gone through a number of clerks in the last little while, all of them very good. I want to thank Julie Prud'homme, who was our first clerk in this Parliament, Julie Pelletier, and finally Mariane Beaudin for their outstanding service, even by the high standards of the clerking and Library of Parliament services we expect here on Parliament Hill. I think they've all performed outstandingly, and I thank them.