Welcome to this 58th sitting of the Subcommittee of International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, on November 27, 2012.
It's also the 12th anniversary of the day I was elected for the first time.
We are televised today, so bear that in mind. Don't do or say anything that you wouldn't want your mom to see.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we're studying religious freedom in Indonesia. Our witness today is Irshad Manji, who is of course not Indonesian but Canadian, and has relevant testimony on this subject and, I might add, on many other subjects as well, if you have the interest.
Today I finished reading or listening to her audiobook, The Trouble with Islam. I just want to say that normally when you hear somebody at the beginning of an audiobook say they're going to narrate their own book, that's an alarming prospect, but she is one of only two people I've heard who do a really good job as a book narrator. The other one was Barack Obama, so that's not bad company, I suppose, all things considered.