Ladies and gentlemen, let me call this meeting to order. We are the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. This is meeting number 68. According to the order of reference of Wednesday, November 28, 2012, we are studying Bill S-209, an act to amend the Criminal Code (prize fights).
We are going to have witnesses on this private member's bill until approximately five o'clock, and no later than five, as per the agenda. We have only two witnesses today. I want to thank the clerk for all his efforts over the last two weeks. We had people who were interested in coming but who couldn't make the timeframe or who then cancelled and so forth. On your table the agenda shows the Government of British Columbia, but they have withdrawn because they could not make this timeframe.
We will have two witnesses today, and then we'll go to the clause-by-clause consideration later this afternoon.
I want to welcome our witnesses. First of all, from the Canadian Medical Association, we have Anna Reid, who is the president, and Ms. Ricketts. Then by video conference from Vancouver we have Mr. Gutman, who is president of Rockdoc Consulting. Both organizations will have approximately 10 minutes to give an opening statement, and then we'll go to questions.
We'll start with the Canadian Medical Association. The floor is yours, Ms. Reid.