Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank you and the witnesses for being here today.
We are dealing with a bill that's actually quite a short bill. I have it up on my screen here. It does not take very long to scroll through it. I think if you print it off it's maybe two pages long and then there is the schedule that contains the entire UN declaration.
The crux of the bill, in my opinion, is paragraph 4(a):
4 The purpose of this Act is to
(a) affirm the Declaration as a universal international human rights instrument with application in Canadian law.
That's probably the meat of the bill. The second part is to establish the framework for the implementation.
I will cycle through the witnesses and ask each of them if they support the bill in its current form. Maybe I could have just a yes-or-no answer on that.
Mr. Saganash.
He's giving me the thumbs-up.
Can I hear from our other witnesses as well?
Ms. Augustine.