Thank you, Mr. Chair.
As with the previous two amendments, this is also a technical amendment.
Clause 10, as you know, proposes amendments to section 172.2 of the Criminal Code, which prohibits entering into an agreement or arrangement with another person in order to commit any of the enumerated child sexual offences, including the existing child prostitution offences.
Our proposed amendments would remove the references to subsections 212(1), 212(2), 212(2.1), and 212(4), and for the reasons I provided in the previous two amendments, we would support this.
There would also be no gap in the law. An accused person would always be charged under the law as it existed at the time they allegedly committed the offence.
For all those reasons, Mr. Chair, we'll be supporting this amendment.