Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's a great honour to serve on this committee.
I thank the minister for taking his time and giving a little extra time.
Because I'm new to this, I did call the B.C. Attorney General's Office yesterday just to see what their perspective was, and they were indeed in favour of this.
I do have a few questions. The way this has been framed, it deals with organized crime or domestic terror cases, but I'm wondering about how this would apply to more domestic cases, such as the riots we've seen in Toronto or in Vancouver. As we know from the news this morning, in Toronto there were 1,100 people initially charged, and now there are only 24, so most of those charges have been dropped. In Vancouver we've had 117 people charged and there are many more charges possibly coming.
I'm just wondering how this mega-trial bill would apply to something like that, which is not a domestic terrorism or organized crime case.