Welcome back, everybody. Once again, just 22 hours later, here we sit once more with Bill C-10.
Today, we're doing witness testimony. With us today we have both ministers and officials. I'm just going to briefly introduce them for you.
We have the Hon. Steven Guilbeault, who is the Minister of Canadian Heritage and who has been here before.
We also have the Hon. David Lametti, the Minister of Justice.
From the Department of Justice, we have Nathalie Drouin, the deputy minister of justice and deputy attorney general of Canada; Sarah Geh, director general, human rights law section; and Michael Himsl, legal counsel.
Once again, and no strangers to us now by any means, from the Department of Canadian Heritage we have Thomas Owen Ripley, director general, and Drew Olsen, senior director.
We have an hour and perhaps a bit. I know we have an hour with the minister, but, Minister, bear with us. Sometimes we tend to go five minutes over. I say that with trepidation, but you can try to hold us to it.
That being said, we usually do four questions in the opening round and four questions in the second round. I'm hoping to accomplish that. If we have time left, we can do more. That would give an extra one spot for the Conservatives and then the Liberals. In the meantime, I'm going to try to hold to these eight speaking spots.
Mr. Guilbeault, you're not doing an opening statement, but we understand Mr. Lametti is.
Minister Lametti, welcome to the committee. You have up to 10 minutes. The floor is yours, sir.