I call the meeting to order, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you for joining us. This is meeting 12 of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. It's Tuesday, February 11, as we all know, and pursuant to the order of reference of Tuesday, November 5, 2013, in front of us this morning is Bill C-10, an act to amend the Criminal Code on trafficking in contraband tobacco.
Joining us as a witness for the clause-by-clause study which we are going to do is Mr. Paul Saint-Denis, senior counsel for the criminal law policy section. Mr. Saint-Denis, thank you very much for coming.
We're going to do clause-by-clause consideration. It's not a very long bill, ladies and gentlemen; it has four clauses.
Pursuant to Standing Order 75(1), consideration of clause 1, the short title, is postponed, so I shall call clause 2.
(Clause 2 agreed to)
(On clause 3)
We have amendments. Our first amendment, IND-1, is from the independent member, Madame Mourani. She was notified of today's meeting and is not here, so no one is here to move her motion. Just so you know, her motion is out of order as it is contrary to the principle of the bill. We will remove that one.
We'll go on to amendment NDP-1.
I would like Madame Boivin to introduce her amendment.