Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members.
I will start for the Canadian Bar Association and then Mr. Turmel will conclude.
I'd like to thank the committee for inviting the Canadian Bar Association to appear with respect to Bill C-377. We appear today on behalf of our national environmental, energy, and resources law section, the members of whom represent a broad range of interests related to environmental law from every part of Canada.
The Canadian Bar Association is a national association representing over 37,000 jurists across Canada. Amongst our objectives are improvement of the law and improvement in the administration of justice. It's in that optic that the section has assessed this bill.
Mr. Turmel is the secretary of that section, and as a lawyer from Montreal, he specializes in energy and climate change law.
You have received a copy of our letter analyzing the bill, and I'm going to ask Mr. Turmel to address that in greater detail.