Thank you, and thank you for being here, Minister Nicholson, Ms. Klineberg, and Ms. Kane to assist us this morning.
As you outlined, Minister, in your earlier remarks, Bill C-26 makes it a requirement that the arrester finds someone committing an offence, and that arrest has to be effective at the time of the offence, and also that an arrest occur within a reasonable time.
I'm curious as to your comments as to why our government decided not to adopt the opposition party's proposed private member's bill's test of reasonable grounds to believe that an offence has been committed.