Good afternoon, everyone.
This is meeting number 37 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, Thursday, May 3, 2012.
Today we're going to continue our consideration of Bill C-350, an act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act on accountability of offenders.
We'll have time at the end of today's meeting for the consideration of some committee business.
On our first panel today we will hear from Mr. Irvine Waller, president of the International Organization for Victim Assistance. Dr. Waller is a professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa. He is an author and his work has been recognized by numerous awards from the National Organization for Victim Assistance and others. He has championed the rights of child victims at the International Bureau for Children's Rights, where in 2005 he mentored the adoption of the UN guidelines on justice in matters involving child victims and witnesses of crime.
Our committee welcomes Dr. Waller back to the committee. I know we've had the privilege of hearing from him in the past and meeting him.
We look forward to your opening comments. Welcome.