I call the meeting to order.
This is the sixteenth meeting of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. For the record, today is Tuesday, May 11, 2010, and I will just note that today's meeting is being televised.
You have before you the agenda for today. We're beginning our review of Bill C-4, an act to amend the Youth Criminal Justice Act and to make consequential and related amendments thereto. It's also known as Sébastien’s law.
To help us with our review, we have with us the Honourable Rob Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.
Welcome here, Minister.
Accompanying him are officials from the Department of Justice's youth justice, strategic initiatives, and law reform branch. We have with us Catherine Latimer, who is the general counsel and director general, and Paula Kingston, senior counsel.
At the end of our meeting, we will leave a couple of minutes for committee business to work on the selection of some of the witnesses we're calling forward on this bill.
Minister, you have 10 minutes to present, and then we'll open the floor to questions.