Thank you, Mr. Chair, and honourable members.
The Canadian Bar Association is pleased to appear before this committee today to address the statutory review of the Conflict of Interest Act.
The Canadian Bar Association is a voluntary association of 37,000 lawyers across Canada, whose primary objectives include promotion of the rule of law, improvement of the law, and improvement in the administration of justice. It is in the spirit of this mandate that the members of our administrative law section, through its law of lobbying and ethics committee, have made the comments that we have submitted to you in writing and will speak about today.
Guy Giorno, an executive member of the CBA's administrative law section and the chair of its law of lobbying and ethics committee, is here with me today.
I'll turn it over to him to address the substance of our comments on the review.