I call the meeting to order.
This is meeting number 45 of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Today is Wednesday, February 2, 2011.
You have before you the agenda for today. We're continuing our review of Bill C-54, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sexual offences against children).
To assist us with our review, we have with us again our Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, the Honourable Rob Nicholson, and accompanying him are senior officials from the Department of Justice. We have with us Carole Morency, acting general counsel, criminal law policy section, and Donald Piragoff, senior assistant deputy minister, policy sector.
Welcome to all three of you.
Joining them will be Matthias Villetorte, counsel, criminal law policy section, once the minister leaves.
A reminder to all members to provide any proposed amendments to the clerk. We're hoping to move to clause-by-clause during the second half of the next meeting, which is Monday. That might carry over into the following day, which would be Wednesday. In any event, if you could get those amendments to us, it would be very helpful to the clerk and the rest of the members.