Justice committee  I need to pause you, because I want to see if anyone else wants to jump in.

Justice committee  Can we have another under 10 seconds?

Justice committee  I'm going to go very quickly. You're all doing amazing work. Thank you. Thank you particularly, Mr. Galloway, for bringing a voice that we haven't heard very often. Shalini, we're very proud to always have SALCO at the committee. Mr. Maharaj, I will pick up on where you left off and just say that it is critical, not just this year, but any year, that parliamentarians exercise discipline and appropriate behaviour.

Justice committee  I will ask you to rule that out of order.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Ehsassi. Let's continue on this theme. I'll confess to you that I found a bit puzzling, Mr. Rosenblood, your opening submissions about paragraph 319(3)(b), first because the preamble of the Constitution talks about the supremacy of God and the rule of law, and second because it's well known in law that we carve out accommodation or exemptions for religious or conscience beliefs, most recently in the one issue that I think all of us will remember for our entire parliamentary careers—medical assistance in dying—wherein you had a direct conflict within people who felt, pursuant to their conscience, that they didn't want to be compelled to perform a certain type of medical procedure.

Justice committee  Thank you. We're going to take three minutes each, so I'm going to ask all my questions at once. I'll start by saying as-salaam alaikum and shalom. Thank you very much for being here. Your work is incredibly important. I want to thank the witnesses from Quebec. What you experienced in Quebec City was a disaster and a terrorist crime.

Justice committee  Can I clarify something, Ms. Morency? In the context of the registry, we hear a lot about vulnerable sector checks—for instance, people who want to work in a day care, a school, or as a camp counsellor at an overnight camp for children. Is this the kind of registry that is checked to ascertain whether that person is appropriate for that kind of job, dealing with children?

Justice committee  I have two points. First, maybe Ms. Morency could comment on whether the current provisions under the code with respect to bail conditions prior to conviction being entered are flexible enough to allow for precisely what Mr. Erskine-Smith has been referencing, a prohibition in the interim from having possession of an animal.

Justice committee  Thank you for your advocacy, Josie, and thank you for being here.

Justice committee  Let me pick up on that, because I think it's an important point. You've outlined a number of things. You've raised about seven different points. Some are directly under federal jurisdiction and relate to the Criminal Code. Some relate to other aspects of federal regulations, such as transport.

Justice committee  With my last question, I want to ask you about your experience in the west end part of Toronto in aggregating people who want to discuss these issues. I remember very clearly your Woofest event. I remember seeing the posters about it and wondering what it was all about. It was a fun event for me and my kids, but it was also an event where you actually advocated for animal causes and animal rescue.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to direct some questions to Ms. Candito. Josie, welcome to the committee. Josie, I've known you for a long time, obviously, as a business owner in the western part of Toronto, in Parkdale—High Park. I've known you as an animal rights advocate and, to be frank, as someone who helps educate me and others in the community about animal rights and the importance of, as you've just said, speaking up for those who are voiceless, the creatures that are voiceless in Canada.

Justice committee  Could we get some clarification? What is LIB-37?

Justice committee  Thank you. Can I just ask you another question that relates to something that wasn't discussed directly, but it's certainly a key part of the statute, which is about addressing the inability of people to access assets and understand where the assets may be located on the part of separating spouses, or divorcing spouses?

Justice committee  Ms. McCarthy.