Mr. Chair, honourable members, the Canadian Bar Association appreciates the opportunity to speak to the committee today on two programs that are very dear to our mission, those being the Court Challenges Program and the Law Commission.
The Canadian Bar Association is a national organization of jurists that represents over 36,000 members across the country. Our mission includes the improvement of the law and of the administration of justice. It's within that purview that we have written to you, and the committee has a copy of our letter about the two programs on which we make our comments today.
Ms. Buckley is counsel to the Canadian Bar Association on a number of cases before the courts right now and I'm going to ask her to speak to the substance of each of the programs.