Good late morning and early afternoon to our guests and witnesses today on our study on Canada's contribution to international peacekeeping. Thank you for joining us.
Today we have, from United Nations University in New York, Dr. Adam Day, head of programs, Centre for Policy Research. We also have Dr. Richard Gowan, senior fellow, Centre for Policy Research.
As an individual, from New York as well, we have Ameerah Haq, former under-secretary-general, department of field support, United Nations.
From Tufts University, we have Dr. Ian Johnstone. He is in Brussels, Belgium.
Thank you all very much for appearing. It is important that we have outside perspectives on what we're talking about today.
It is a bit difficult to manage a video conference with three or four people on screens, so if you see me make this gesture, it means I am asking you to wind down your comments in 30 seconds so we can have a nice, graceful exit, we can move on, and I can manage everyone's time.
Having said that, I will turn the floor over to Dr. Adam Day.
I would appreciate it if you would please stick to 10 minutes for your remarks and then we can get into the discussion.
Dr. Day.