Justice committee  Thank you. My next question will touch upon the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace. I'll highlight that this is something we're seized with as a country, and have been over the last several months. Prior to COVID, there was a very robust #MeToo movement, and we'd like to have some responses about that to know what the government is doing.

Justice committee  Thank you, Minister. I have a minute for one last question. I'd like to touch upon Black Lives Matter. At the beginning of COVID, we saw a very robust conversation around Black Lives Matter. This led to the parliamentary Black caucus sending a letter to the government asking for movement on the file.

Small Business  Mr. Speaker, our country just marked Small Business Week, and I would like to recognize the resilience of small and medium-sized businesses in Pierrefonds—Dollard. There is no question small businesses have been hard hit by the pandemic. Our government has stepped up, though, to provide supports by covering the wages of workers, providing emergency loans and subsidizing rents.

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.