Thank you, Madam Chair. There are a lot of buttons pressed in this place for no apparent reason, I think.
I'm wondering if I could ask a question about CEDAW, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. I don't know to what degree you would feel comfortable in answering these questions, but one of the things this committee had considered was looking at Canada's response to our CEDAW commitments, our obligations.
Firstly, if you have expertise in CEDAW, could you give us a sense of why these commitments were put in place? What do they involve? What was the whole point of the CEDAW protocol?