Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and bonjour, colleagues. Welcome to the 89th meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights. We're continuing our study on child labour and modern slavery.
In front of us we have Peter Talibart, a partner with Seyfarth Shaw, from London. Assisting him will be Mark Trachuk, senior corporate securities partner at the law firm Osler, in Toronto. We also have, by video conference, Cindy Berman, head, Modern Slavery Strategy, Ethical Trading Initiative.
I understand that you've been briefed on the amount of time you have for your opening remarks. We'll go to our video conference first, just because it's always hard for people to pay attention to the video conference when there are live people here. Maybe this will help.
Ms. Berman, would you begin your comments, please?