Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to welcome the minister. I find you quite a bit more appealing when you talk about DNA than when you talk about judges. Please be assured, I'll be asking you no questions about judges today.
My first question is this: how is the rationale concerning the distinction between primary and secondary offences shared?
In the first place, we get the impression that primary offences are slightly more serious than secondary offences. Similarly, when you go over the list that was submitted to us, you realize that Internet luring, for example, is a primary offence, but that assault, which, in certain respects, is an act that may seem to have more serious consequences, is a secondary offence.
So my first question concerns the rationale and how many offences would now be considered primary offences in the bill.
Second, did the minister say that drug offences were primary offences? In the document I read, I got the impression that they were still secondary offences.
As legislators, it is important that we understand the sequence of events once this order goes into effect. I'd like you to tell us about that as well.
I'm in favour of short questions and intense answers.