Human Rights  Mr. Speaker, today at noon, the Subcommittee on International Human Rights released a statement on the situation of the Uighur people and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, China. The statement was consensus-based. Members from all parties agreed to it. We learned in two full days of deeply disturbing testimony that between one million and three million Uighur people are currently being held in concentration camps by the Government of China.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, that was a friendly amendment.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Exactly.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  For the allocation of time, that's a friendly amendment. And also with respect to the 72 hours, that's friendly. So if you propose it as friendly, I'll accept it as such.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It is.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Exactly.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The wording would be exactly the same as it was last time, except we would strike out “10 minutes” and replace it with “five minutes”, and then add one sentence to say “that the above be at the discretion of the chair”.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Congratulations on your elections to you and to all the vice-chairs. I'm really looking forward to this committee and to resuming our activity from the last session of this Parliament. I have a series of routine motions that I'd like to present for us to adopt.

Justice committee  I want to support what Mr. Virani just said. I feel strongly that a lot of what we want to hear as members will come out through the questions and answers. We know we're operating remotely. We just saw at this meeting that a lot of us had sound check challenges, and then some of us were logging in with our P9s.

Justice committee  Thanks, Madam Chair, for all the work you're doing. I would like to support what Mr. Virani said with respect to reducing that minimum time given to witnesses to five minutes and leaving it at your discretion to give witnesses more than that. There are two reasons. The first is that we unanimously put you and the other vice-chairs forth, which means that we have trust and confidence in your ability to manage us and to manage the time that we are dealing with.

Justice committee  I would like to move a motion for the election of the second vice-chair.

Justice committee  I nominate Rhéal Fortin, of the Bloc Québécois, for second vice-chair of our committee.

School in Pierrefonds—Dollard  Mr. Speaker, last week I had the pleasure of visiting children and teachers at Collège Beaubois, an elementary school and high school in my riding. The day I visited, I planted a tree with the students and the principal, Éric Rivard. Mr. Rivard then signed A Pact for the Transition, which is a wonderful initiative to reduce our ecological footprint.

Romani People  moved: Mr. Speaker, there have been discussions among the parties and if you seek it, I think you will find unanimous consent to adopt the following motion: That the House: (a) officially recognize that the Nazis and their collaborators systematically murdered over 500,000 Romani during the Holocaust and that this atrocity constitutes a genocide against the Romani people; (b) pay tribute to those Romani who were murdered as well as the Romani survivors of persecution by the Nazis; and c) recognize August 2 as the official date to commemorate the Romani Genocide, also known as Porajmos and Samudaripen, to never forget the atrocities committed against the Romani people, the harrowing stories of victims, and the incredible strength of survivors.

Government Operations committee  I'd again like to thank the witnesses for testifying. I'd actually like to pick up on the theme that we heard about just moments ago. It's about the Uighur people. Just to share this with other members of this committee, the Subcommittee on International Human Rights and I heard very disturbing testimony on Monday and Tuesday—for seven hours on Monday and seven hours on Tuesday—from experts and in first-hand accounts of people who have been interned or have been within the concentration camps in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China.