Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's so sad—it boggles the mind—that Mr. Brison at this point would not be aware that the regime-linked unions represent fewer than 10% of the workers who are still unionized in Colombia, subject as they are to significant paramilitary action, killings, threats, on an ongoing basis.
To suggest that the regime-linked unions in some way credibly speak for the entire Colombian labour movement and that this committee was right to deny all Colombian unions that are not regime-affiliated the ability to come to speak before committee, or that it's somehow permissible and acceptable to have the CLC denied, the Public Service Alliance of Canada denied, NUPGE denied, and other labour unions and labour representatives in Canada who wanted to come before the committee—that somehow that's all okay.... I'll have to vehemently disagree, Mr. Chair.