We'll open this meeting of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development on Tuesday, April 24, 2007.
Committee members, you have the orders of the day before you. We are still working on Bill C-44, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Today we have witnesses from the Canadian Bar Association. We have Christopher Devlin, chair of the national aboriginal law section, and Tamra Thomson, director of legislation and law reform.
Welcome to the witnesses.
We'll have a presentation of around 10 minutes and then we'll be moving into questions.
Committee members, I would like to take a bit of time at the end of the meeting to talk about the two motions that have come forward from Madam Crowder and Madam Neville. I think we're going to deal with those on Thursday, but we'll talk about that.
Welcome. I'll allow you to begin now, please.