Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank everyone for appearing here today.
My comment would be, I suppose, to Ms. Stevenson. It is with regard to what my colleague was talking about: the Convention on the Rights of the Child. My first comment is that it's pretty well universally accepted and certainly well promoted here in Canada.
I have difficulty with article 38. Article 1 says that you're a child if you're under the age of 18; article 38 says, except, if you get recruited into a military, you can be 15. I have difficulty with that, and I would hope that they would rewrite it. I understand they've covered that with some recent protocols but not all countries have accepted the protocols.
Would that not an apt place—and maybe it is there already and I've just forgotten about it—to add for the right of a child to be certified at birth? It seems to me that would be a very important thing to do. Perhaps you could comment on whether child marriage or female genital mutilation is covered in that document. Would that not be an apt document to clarify some of these issues, and put it on record? As I said, it's pretty universally accepted as a document that's followed in most countries.
Could you comment on that, Ms. Stevenson?