I appreciate that. Thank you for providing testimony here. It's great to be sitting in as a guest committee member.
I want to congratulate the member from St. Paul for the work that you've done over the years.
Ms. Legault-Roy, you mentioned sporting events. I actually tabled a motion a year before the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics that I was hoping to have unanimous consent for, to have an action plan to counter human trafficking, consistent with our obligations under the Palermo Protocol. We had the member from St. Paul's support that; unfortunately, I didn't get unanimous consent.
But it's great to see forward movement on this issue. I understand the Liberal Party is very supportive of Madame Mourani's bill—extending the jurisdiction to crimes outside of Canada; there are a number of different factors in it.
We have some concerns about two aspects in particular. One of them is the issue of consecutive sentence as opposed to concurrent sentence. My understanding is that the judges already have the power to impose a consecutive sentence. To take away flexibility from judges, to use their judgment, is always something to be done with a great deal of care. I'd like you to respond as to why you feel it's important, given that there's already the opportunity for judges to do consecutive sentencing.
Secondly, we have some concerns about the presumption of guilt and the potential situations where minors might be implicated and may not have the capacity or the resources, or even the situation, the support, in their lives to be able to defend themselves in a presumption of guilt situation.
I'd like to hear both of your comments on those two issues.
Thank you.