Or voters; but they ain't voting for me anyway.
With that, we are going to welcome our witnesses today. We have, from FOCAL, the Canadian Foundation for the Americas, Carlo Dade, executive director, who's been with us before.
Thank you for coming back.
We also have, from the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, Jean-Michel Laurin, who's vice-president of global business policy; from the Canadian Council for International Co-operation, again joining us is Gauri Sreenivasan, the policy coordinator, international trade; and appearing en español is Yessika Hoyos Morales, a human rights lawyer, I believe from Colombia.
We're going to ask each of our witnesses to begin with a brief opening statement—those we have heard before will be more brief—and having heard their opening statements, we'll go to the questioning.
Before we start, let me remind everybody that if you want to listen in English, you're on channel one; French is on channel two; and Spanish is on channel three.
With that, perhaps I'll start with our Spanish visitor.
Ms. Morales, would you like to begin?