I call the meeting to order.
This is meeting number 52 of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, and for the record, today is Monday, March 7, 2011.
You have before you the agenda for today. We're continuing our review of Bill C-4, An Act to amend the Youth Criminal Justice Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts.
Again, we have with us a number of witnesses in two separate panels who are standing by to help us with that review. On our first panel we have the Canadian Council of Provincial Child and Youth Advocates, represented by Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, who is from my home province of B.C. She is the president. We also have Sylvie Godin, the vice-president. Welcome to both of you.
We also have here, representing the Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime, Heidi Illingworth, who's the executive director. Welcome to you.
As well, we expect that shortly we will have Professor Susan Reid here. She's a professor of criminology and criminal justice, and director of the Centre for Research on Youth at Risk at St. Thomas University.
I think you have all been told the process here. You have 10 minutes to present, and then we'll open the floor to questions.
Why don't we begin with Ms. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond?