Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome, Mr. Minister.
My party supports fully the concept behind this legislation, and we'd like to deal with it as quickly as we can. I have a couple of really technical questions.
One of the problems or challenges facing this type of legislation is the need to build in these exceptions for close in age, the problem with marriages and common-law relationships, and the fact that we prefer not to have the Criminal Code regulating non-typical social relationships. In any event, we do want to target predatory behaviour.
Now the technical questions. It's great to see you have an adviser from your department.