Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you very much to both of our witnesses for being here today.
Before I move to questioning, Chair, I'm going to start with moving my motion, which I put on notice on Wednesday, March 10. I think it's very timely, given the activity last week relative to flight PS752 and the Liberal government coming out, as they should, so strongly against the report issued by the Iranian government indicating that, according to their report, they believe it was human error.
I'm very happy to see both Minister Alghabra and Minister Garneau stand up for the 176 individuals who perished on board, including 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents.
I think further in support, taking the team Canada approach as we like to do, it does merit a study here at the committee, and that is the reason I put forward the notice of motion. Given the activity that took place last week, with the Iranian government issuing...their civil aviation authority blaming human error, and the dismissal of this information by both the transport minister and the foreign affairs minister, I certainly think we owe it to the victims' families, as well as to our beliefs here in Canada of justice, human rights, the rule of law, democracy—I could go on, but certainly standing up for justice abroad—to undertake this study.
At this time, Chair, I will read the motion into the record again, and I would ask, please, that we go to discussion and a vote today.
The motion is as follows, as given notice of on Wednesday, March 10, 2021:
That the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities undertake a study of no less than five meetings on the government’s response to the Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 tragedy and that the committee report its findings and recommendations to the House.
Thank you, Chair.