Thank you, Madam Chair.
I would like to ask each of our witnesses the same question.
As you know, the Minister of Justice has an obligation, under the Department of Justice Act, to determine whether any prospective legislation comports or complies with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and to table a report if there are inconsistencies between the legislation and the Charter of Rights.
My question to each of you is, if you had been advising the minister on this legislation, what would your advice have been, and would you have stated to him or advised him that there are certain provisions that needed to be tabled for their inconsistency or non-compliance with the charter?