Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I can explain. I was going to give you some introductory remarks, then Wahkushee was going to present, and then Jessica. Then all of us are available to answer questions.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for giving us this opportunity to speak with you today. I want to take a moment to commend you on your 2013 study of the human rights context in Burma and its excellent recommendations. I work at Inter Pares. We're a small Canadian social justice orga

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's written into the constitution. The 2008 constitution says that 25% of seats must be held by active duty officers, and to change the constitution you need a 75% plus one vote.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There definitely are some advocates within Rangoon who are identifying these particular issues. It's very difficult for them and their space is becoming increasingly limited.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I would say so, yes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm not sure which of two or three different things it could be, so I'm not going to respond.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Right. Sorry.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  At the moment, as far as I know, there are no large-scale Canadian investment projects. From what we see, the situation is far too high risk, and I think that so far, Canadian businesses understand that and have not been.... There are no Canadian mining projects active at the mom

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The work we are hoping to do is to continue to work with ethnic civil society. While there has not been a lot of concrete progress in the last few years and in fact it's backsliding, there is still hope. This time of not a lot of progress but a lot of hope is a really critical ti

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Good afternoon, and thank you for this opportunity. Inter Pares is an Ottawa-based international social justice organization, and we have been working with people from Burma for over 20 years, often with significant support from the Government of Canada. Today I will build on

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sure. In the last few weeks, we have seen Aung San Suu Kyi request that the U.S. ambassador not use the word “Rohingya”. We have seen the NLD continue some of the same problematic, oppressive patterns that we had in the past. For example, the national verification process that

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you and good afternoon. Inter Pares is a Canadian social justice organization. We began working with people from Burma in 1991. We have significant support from Global Affairs Canada for our Burma program. My colleagues Nikki Richard and Samantha McGavin are here with me

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I can jump in just to say that I am very uncomfortable with comparing the atrocities that every ethnic group is experiencing. If I had to say, and I have said in the past, Rohingya is an extreme example.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's mostly about the fact that we're seeing the patterns of behaviour—the oppression against Rohingya—throughout the country, and we have been seeing it for decades. We need to be looking at the whole picture, and looking at the basic project of the government and military of cr