Welcome, everyone.
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I would now like to welcome our witnesses for the briefing on the situation in the Philippines.
With us tonight, representing the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines Canada, we have Guy-Lin Beaudoin, and Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan.
We have Maria Ressa. She is the CEO and executive editor at Rappler Inc., and is appearing as an individual.
We have Catherine Coumans, research coordinator and Asia-Pacific program coordinator at MiningWatch Canada.
We also have Emily Dwyer, coordinator at the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability.
Mr. Beaudoin and Ms. Palabay, please start us off with your opening remarks for up to five minutes.