Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Maybe I'll take that question. Honourable member, thank you for your question and thank you for having us. There have been a lot of human rights violations, including torture. Obviously we're not present in some of these situations. You only have to see the pictures, some of w

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Unfortunately, that is not quite the case. Again, as much as they might be independent and might respond back to the Canadian government, they are still in Zimbabwe; they are still in the territory of Zimbabwe. As much as we can try, as much as we can have the Canadian governmen

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Honourable member, thank you for that question. It's twofold, as far as I want to believe and understand. Number one is that when we switched from the Zimbabwean dollar to the U.S. dollar, the U.S. dollar is predominantly what countries trade in. Because there's no production

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm sorry, honourable member, was that for any one of us or—

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Before I hand it over to Ms. Gadza, I will say that to begin with, as a community there are not a lot of us, because the immigration policies haven't always supported bringing Zimbabweans, or at least as many Zimbabweans as we would like, partly because of the geography. We're so

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, honourable member. At the moment we understand that the Zimbabwean government has a strong hold on all the infrastructure, whether it's telecoms, the media or the national television, including the mobile networks. As far as we understand, it's a case of people being

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Honourable Chair, we do have an order, so I am going to pass to Tsitsi Gadza for the opening remarks. Thank you.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Honourable members, I'll just proceed with opening remarks. We're here to discuss the issue in Zimbabwe concerning human rights abuse and the economic decline. We'll go through that in our presentation with all the witnesses. I was going to speak specifically to the economic