Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Minister, thank you for being here this afternoon.
I would like to share my time with Ms. Boivin, as the chair indicated.
My first question has to do with clause 27 of the bill, which deviates from traditional common law and sets out that the prosecution may compel the spouse of the person accused of distributing intimate images to testify.
Is that provision still necessary? Is it redundant, given that Bill C-32, Victims Bill of Rights Act states that the prosecution may compel the spouse of the accused to testify in the case of any offence?