Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Dufresne and Mr. Hallée, thank you for being here. Your insight will certainly be invaluable to us in the work we're doing.
I'd like to go over some specifics with you.
In your opening remarks, you talked about the fact that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms continued to apply after the Emergencies Act was invoked. That wasn't the case in the context of the previous act—the War Measures Act—since at the time there simply wasn't a charter, as we know. Now that there is a charter, it applies.
Does the application of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms need to be taken into consideration when we interpret, for instance, the limits of our mandate? Our mandate includes reviewing the exercise of powers and performance of duties and functions set out in the act. Don't we also have a duty to look at whether the exercise of those powers is consistent with the charter?