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Committee Evidence - SDIR-9
2016-05-17
Michael Levitt - 13:47
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-17 13:47
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Thank you both for coming. The question I have really goes to the point that Mr. Akhavan made about there being extremes in the pendulum regarding the approach to re-engagement. You mentioned initially that Canada had to play the geopolitical game. I guess it's a very important game and indeed not a game, but at the other end, blind re-engagement is not advisable for all the reasons you mentioned.
Mr. Akhavan, you made a number of statements about Iranian civil society, notably that it has the biggest potential to develop and flourish compared to its similarly situated neighbours. I'd like you to develop that in the context of a careful re-engagement in terms of trade or lifting of various sanctions. Perhaps you could take a few minutes to juxtapose that with what the Europeans are taking and what kind of symbolic acts Canada can perform in order to get the right point on the pendulum to engage Iran and use the chips carefully.
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Economic sanctions
International relations
Iran
Payam Akhavan - 13:48
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-17 13:50
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Thank you.
Dr. Shaheed, perhaps you could build on that. I note that your report was criticized by Iran in a very cavalier fashion. Where do you think western powers are going right in their approach to Iran—right or wrong, in fact—in light of the P5+1 agreement?
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United Nations Security Council
Ahmed Shaheed - 13:50
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Committee Evidence - FAAE-12
2016-05-10
Hon. Robert Nault - 16:15
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-10 16:15
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Welcome, Ms. Mohammed.
It's important to understand, when it comes to talking about reconstruction or aid, we're not starting from scratch when it comes to Iraq. If you examine the historical role of women in Iraqi society, relative to other similarly situated countries in the Middle East, Iraq started relatively higher with participation of women in civil society; they were active in the workforce and in political life.
Indeed, if you look at the provisional constitution of 1970, rights were guaranteed to women and the laws enacted thereunder gave rights to women or enshrined rights to women that were being exercised. Then in the 1990s it started spiralling under. Then, as you said in your testimony, the Security Council in 2003...and it's been even worse since then.
What are the elements in the current constitution that strip women further of their human rights guarantees and promote a more religious-based agenda? What do you think could bring us back, and then be better, to where Iraqi society left off before the various iterations of wars that have happened since the 1990s?
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Women
Yanar Mohammed - 16:16
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Committee Evidence - SDIR-7
2016-05-10
Michael Levitt - 13:58
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-10 13:58
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Thank you to the members of the commission on foreign policy and to Mr. Guevara for coming. I would like to note that you are among colleagues who don't face the same situation you do, so from our side there's a lot of respect for what you're doing and why you came here. Thank you again for having the courage to stand up.
When we talk about human rights violations, people often speak about the rule of law, and here we're not even at that point. There's a complete attack on your ability to do your jobs, whether through personal intimidation or threats of a different nature. None of us here face that. There would not be the same group of people around the table if we faced the threats you face. To that end I would like you to speak a bit more directly about the personal harassment you and your families face at home and abroad.
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Political parties
Venezuela
Luis Florido - 13:59
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Committee Evidence - NDDN-11
2016-05-10
Stephen Fuhr - 9:33
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-10 9:33
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General Bowes and General Nixon, I know it's been said twice, but I'll say it another time: thank you for your ongoing service.
General Bowes, you touched briefly on our relationship with the indigenous peoples in the north. Perhaps you could expand a little on that and where you see added value specifically with respect to our relationship with the Canadian Rangers. Is there value in deepening and strengthening that relationship, or broadening it with a view toward ensuring ongoing territorial sovereignty?
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Stephen Bowes - 9:34
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Committee Evidence - FAAE-11
2016-05-05
Hon. Robert Nault - 15:57
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-05 15:57
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Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Dion, the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment defines torture as follows:
[...] any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person [...]
Obviously, the mistreatment of prisoners and inmates is serious, inhumane and always illegal.
Mr. Minister, this week you signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. I would like to know how signing this protocol will help us achieve the objective of eliminating torture.
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Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and ...
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Optional Protocol to the Convention Agai ...
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Hon. Stéphane Dion - 15:58
Hon. Robert Nault - 16:05
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-05 16:05
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Madam Minister, the committee heard from numerous witnesses during its study on women, peace and security. They told us that the department had stopped providing base funding to small NGOs, in Canada and in developing countries. This is of course tremendously problematic for many of them.
I would like to know whether you will consider this in your review the policies of Global Affairs Canada.
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International development and aid
Main estimates 2016-2017
Non-governmental organizations
Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau - 16:05
Hon. Robert Nault - 16:48
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-05 16:48
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Gentlemen, thank you for coming.
In the Global Affairs Canada report for planning priorities for 2016-17, there is a forecasted spending for 2015-16, under international security and democratic development, for the amount of $395,178,104. The same report indicates that planned spending for international security and democratic development for 2016-17 is $237,901,526. Where does that difference come from?
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Main estimates 2016-2017
Arun Thangaraj - 16:49
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-05 16:49
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I can repeat them, and if you don't have it in front of you, you can get back to me. It's okay.
In the planning priorities for 2016-17, there is a forecasted spending for the 2015-16 period for international security and democratic development of $395 million. The same report indicates planned spending for 2016-17 of $237 million.
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Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and ...
International relations
Main estimates 2016-2017
Daniel Jean - 16:49
Arun Thangaraj - 16:50
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-05 16:50
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Okay. Thank you.
Then, if you could just explain.... It appears in the footnotes at times that many of the performance targets are to “obtain baseline information”. Could you briefly explain what exactly that is?
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Arun Thangaraj - 16:51
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Committee Evidence - SDIR-6
2016-05-05
Michael Levitt - 13:28
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-05 13:29
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Thank you, Ms. Lewa, for your testimony. Perhaps my question will allow you to get into your recommendations.
We've heard from many witnesses, at least one of whom has asked that no trade be undertaken with the government until there is improvement in the human rights situation of the Rohingya. Obviously, with a fledgling democracy, that may have an inverse effect on the situation that is faced by those people. Another witness mentioned that certain trade/aid—and those are obviously two distinct groups—be targeted, if we were to undertake sanctions.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on increasing trade and obviously increasing aid, and how to perhaps leverage or link it to improvement in the human rights situation and legal status of the Rohingya.
Thank you.
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Economic sanctions
International development and aid
Myanmar
Rohingya
Chris Lewa - 13:29
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-05 13:34
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Raj Saini - 13:34
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Committee Evidence - SDIR-5
2016-05-04
Michael Levitt - 13:51
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-04 13:52
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You touched briefly on the conditions faced by the Rohingya in two other countries. You didn't mention Bangladesh, and our numbers from 2015 indicate that there are 32,000 registered Rohingya and perhaps even 200,000 non-registered there.
Can you touch a little on the conditions faced by those refugees in Bangladesh and perhaps the response of the Bangladesh government in response to that mass entry?
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Civil and human rights
Mass arrivals
Myanmar
Rohingya
John Sifton - 13:52
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Committee Evidence - FAAE-10
2016-05-03
Hon. Robert Nault - 17:08
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-03 17:08
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Thanks to all three of you for your testimony and, indeed, your courage.
Ms. Abdallah, thank you for being here. Thank you for believing in our country. I believe that I can dare to speak on behalf of this committee and say thank you for making Canada better. It's through people like you that we improve as a country, as a nation.
Your testimony left everyone deeply moved, so thank you.
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Women
Dalal Abdallah - 17:09
Lib. (QC)
Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
2016-05-03 17:09
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It's unquestionable that the behaviour by Daesh is genocidal, disgusting, blood-curdling, and needs to end.
There's a question I have for the three of you. Whoever feels more like taking the question first, feel free.
Are we doing enough as a country? Canada expanded its aid and its engagement in the region significantly, in my opinion. Are we doing enough? What is the international community doing now? What more should it be doing to protect every single last Yazidi? I would like to get your sense of what's missing in this equation.
It's not a mistake, but we tend to conflate long-term solutions with the short-term solutions, and the immediacy of this situation is quite obvious. I'd like to focus on the immediacy. In the long term, obviously getting women engaged as 50% of the armed forces is something that I've pushed even to the top general in the Canadian Army, but the immediacy is what I'd like an answer on today from you.
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