The Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights is now called to order.
On our agenda today, pursuant to the order of reference of Tuesday, June 6, 2006, is the debate of Bill C-9, an act to amend the Criminal Code on conditional sentence of imprisonment.
We have before the committee the Honourable Vic Toews, Minister of Justice. We also have Catherine Kane, who is the senior counsel with the Department of Justice and the director of the Policy Centre for Victim Issues.
Welcome.