I call the meeting to order.
This is meeting 20 of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Today is Tuesday, June 1, 2010.
You have before you the agenda for today, and today we're continuing with our review of Bill C-4, Sébastien's Law, An Act to amend the Youth Criminal Justice Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts.
Members, we had planned to have an in camera planning meeting at the end of this meeting. Given the fact that none of the three regular Liberal members is here, I'm proposing we cancel it and hold that meeting at our next meeting on Thursday, with your consent.
I'm assuming that none of the Liberals here have any instructions on extra meetings and that sort of thing. All right.
Now, what we've done is we've divided today's meeting into two parts, two panels. With us on the first panel are a number of organizations. First of all, we have the Child Welfare League of Canada, represented by Peter Dudding, executive director. Welcome here. The Barreau du Québec will appear in our second panel. We've replaced them with Les Centres jeunesse de l'Outaouais, represented by Yves Laperrière, who's the department head. Welcome here. We also have with us the African Canadian Legal Clinic, represented by Megan Forward, a policy research lawyer, as well as Lwam Ghebarehariat, a summer law student. Welcome to our committee.
I think you've been told that you have a certain amount of time to speak, and then we'll open the floor to questions from our members for the balance of the panel session.
Why don't we start with Mr. Dudding.