Art Hanger at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

I'd like to call the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights to order. This being Wednesday, April 18, 2007, in this committee we'll be finishing our study on the judicial appointment process.

Of course you will note that there are cameras in this session. That was agreed to by the committee some time back.

For our witnesses today, we have two honourable gentlemen. We have Mr. Antonio Lamer, former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Welcome, sir. And we have Mr. Jacob S. Ziegel, professor emeritus of law, University of Toronto.

Thank you both for attending.

Going in the order that they appear on this agenda, I will ask Mr. Lamer, then, to begin his testimony.