Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm very grateful for Mr. Matas' and Mr. Kilgour's testimony. I have to say that I and my colleagues were charged with being level-headed and intellectually engaged on issues, etc., yet this issue seems to pull at even the most strident person's emotions, and it is almost unfathomable that this would go on.
I am particularly concerned with the testimony that over 90% of the organs that are used in China for transplant are harvested in this fashion, harvested from Falun Gong who have been executed.
Speaking of the magnitude of this situation, this is a country of almost 1.4 billion people. If it's 90%, I can't imagine the flow that is going to be required and the number of lives we're talking about here.
Yet, Mr. Matas and Mr. Kilgour, the Congressional Research Service stated that your report “relies largely upon the making of logical inferences” and actually criticized it. I wanted to give you the opportunity to defend that publicly, so maybe, Mr. Kilgour, you'd address that criticism.