Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To begin, I want to make sure that we welcome our new members to the committee. You'll find this is a highly functional and collaborative committee compared to maybe where you've been, so welcome.
I also want to thank Mr. Bezan for this work and for his engagement.
I also want to thank you for mentioning Senator Andreychuk. I think I probably learned more about the world, diplomacy, Africa, Magnitsky and everything from former Senator Raynell Andreychuk than from any other human being. I know you'd like to change the name to the Magnitsky law. I might propose the Andreychuk law because of Raynell's work, not only in Canada but with establishing the statute of Rome and the International Criminal Court. Her work is profound in the world. I hope she's listening in her retirement. Maybe she's doing something better, but I don't know.
Thank you also for honouring the work that you and she did in 2016 on this.
The world's obviously changed since 2016. We have had some organic changes to IRPA and some organic changes through the way we do our regimes, the three regimes that we do sanctions under.
I know that Bill C-281 in the previous Parliament is probably the basis for Bill C-219. What is the process you used out of Bill C-281 from the last Parliament to this one? What consultations did you do, and how have you changed your ideas or thinking to present this bill?