Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Minister, for appearing, and thank you, of course, to the deputy minister and counsel Koster for appearing.
It's pleasing to know that there appears to be some consensus on the passage of the bill, and so we're cautiously optimistic that no one will have a meltdown.
There is some confusion. Four new offences are being created under this act, and there seems to be some illusion that perhaps these offences were otherwise covered in the Criminal Code. I'm sensing that perhaps we've been very specific in creating these new offences so as to respect the concept of proportionality in sentences, given the harm that could potentially be created.
Could you comment on that, Minister?