Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to the witnesses.
I was very pleased at the last meeting that I was able to bring forward this motion that was amended by Mr. Waugh, that was adopted by the committee, to have an amended charter statement to address the concerns that people had about section 2(b) of the charter and the removal of proposed section 4.1 from the bill.
I'm going to tailor my questions to that issue. I'm also pleased, by the way, that our government has brought in this question of charter statements so that legal information is provided to parliamentarians and the public as we analyze the bill on the potential impact on their rights. I do want to say that that is from the Liberal government.
All my questions are going to be to Maître Drouin.
Maître Drouin, it's a great pleasure to see you here today.
First, I'm going to have some short questions and then some longer ones, so on the short ones perhaps you could stay short.
Maître Drouin, would it be true to say that charter statements are non-political documents drafted by career civil servants in the Department of Justice?