Thank you, Minister.
As you know, Mr. Allan Hubley is a City of Ottawa councillor and a father of a bullied teen who took his own life rather tragically. Last November, when this bill was introduced, he said, “When we were younger, you always knew who your bully was, you could do something about it. Now, up until the time this legislation gets enacted, they can hide behind that”—the Internet, that is. He said that on Canada AM. He went on to say, “Not only does it start to take the mask off them, through this legislation there is serious consequences for their actions.”
Can you explain to us why it is so important to modernize the current Criminal Code?