Thank you.
On the provision of the age of marriage being 16, we have concerns, as some witnesses did, that parental consent alone may not be a good idea, because that could involve forced marriages among people who are 16 or 17 years old. The effect of our amendment is to create a provision whereby the minimum age would be 18, except in provinces that have established a regime for some sort of judicial oversight for marriage involving 16-year-old and 17-year-old people. That's our proposed amendment.