Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon, and thank you very much for appearing before our subcommittee.
The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights finds that commissions established by the Security Council are proven more likely to gain access and state cooperation as compared with commissions established by the Human Rights Council. So it is deemed more effective to go through the Security Council than the Human Rights Council.
When we request the secretary-general to appoint a commission of inquiry, do we know which body of the UN this will ultimately be referred to, the Security Council or the Human Rights Council? And if it is the Human Rights Council, should Canada then in fact hold off and reconsider a means by which to refer our request directly to the Security Council to ensure that the commission of inquiry ultimately will have more teeth?
What do you say on that?