Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the chair and the clerk for bringing forward the witnesses I requested. We have the full complement of Canadian enforcement, and I'm very happy.
Welcome to our committee. Congratulations on the great job you do.
I want to follow up a bit on the questions by my colleague from the Bloc. I'm a little bit puzzled about all of the additions in here and then the obvious throwing in of the exception to make up for the fact that there's minimum sentencing.
I'm not sure if the Department of Justice would speak to that, or Monsieur Tremblay, or if it would be Madame Proulx, but I'm a little bit puzzled about the need to add the minimum sentencing when clearly there are numerous outs, including the provisions that my colleague on the committee has raised.
My additional question on this would possibly go to the prosecution office and to the head of investigations or whoever would be bringing charges. I'm wondering if the addition of the minimum sentencing might have any negative implications for the bringing of charges, particularly where it's a continuing offence that may be going on for many months or for several years and could result in many millions of dollars in even the minimum penalty. I'm wondering if you think that will have any implications for the willingness of the department to be bringing the charges or for a prosecution to go forward.