Ladies and gentlemen, we'll call the meeting to order.
This is our thirty-first meeting in our study on Canadian Forces in Afghanistan, and I believe it's our last scheduled meeting, so our witnesses should know that we saved the best to the last.
We welcome you. We're glad you were able to fit us into your obviously busy schedules. We appreciate the work that the clerk and others had to do to bring this together.
We would like to welcome, from the Afghan Women's Organization, Adeena Niazi; from Rights and Democracy, Ariane Brunet, coordinator; and from Open Society Institute, Rina Amiri. The other person at the table is there for moral support for Rina; she is not really a witness.
Also today, besides this subject, we have a notice of motion from Mr. Cannis that we'd like to deal with at the end of the meeting, if that is all right with you, Mr. Cannis.