Today is February 7, 2013, and this is the 67th meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. Pursuant to Standing Order 108, we are studying the human rights situation in Honduras.
We have with us today two witnesses from DFAIT. Neil Reeder is the director general of the Latin American and Caribbean bureau, and Jeffrey Marder is the director of strategic relations for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Before I invite our witnesses to begin their testimony, I want to inform members of the subcommittee that we have a couple of items of committee business to discuss in camera at the end of this meeting, so I will be a little bit tight with the time. That's why I was so anxious to get rid of the preceding committee as well, so that we would have adequate time to hear from our witnesses, ask them fulsome questions, get fulsome answers, and then move to the committee business, with all the time that gets taken up in going in camera.
That said, I'm going to invite our witnesses to begin.
Mr. Reeder, I get the impression that you want to go first. Please begin.