Thank you for the invitation to present the Canadian Bar Association's views on Bill S-4 to you today.
The CBA is a national association of over 37,000 members, including lawyers, notaries, law students, and academics. An important aspect of our mandate is seeking improvement in the law and the administration of justice, and it's from that perspective that we appear before you today.
With me is Dan MacRury, the current treasurer of our national criminal justice section. The section represents a balance of crowns and defence lawyers from every part of the country. Dan is a prosecutor from Sydney, Nova Scotia. I'll turn it over to him to present the substance of our submission to you.