I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 59 of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format.
I would like to inform the committee that all witnesses have completed the required connection tests in advance of the meeting.
I'd like to remind participants to please wait until I recognize you by name before speaking. All comments should be addressed through the chair. For members in the room and on Zoom, please raise your hand if you wish to speak. The subcommittee clerk and I will do our best to maintain the speaking order.
Before I turn to the witnesses, I would like to take a moment to draw the attention of colleagues to the four budgets that were distributed to subcommittee members this morning authorizing the spending for the studies that the subcommittee has decided to launch this fall.
First, the targeting of civil society in Venezuela; second, patterns of forced migration in different regions of the world; third, the implementation of Canada's universal periodic review; and fourth, transnational repression in developing democracies.
If the members of the subcommittee are ready to adopt these four budgets, we can do so now. However, if the members of the subcommittee wish to have more time to study the estimates, we can do so next week.
Is the subcommittee ready to adopt the budgets?