Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Yes, I'd like to move the amendment that you have before you.
The motivation for this amendment, as I expect you know, is the advice provided to this committee by the Canadian Bar Association, and more particularly, in recommendation two of their brief.
This amendment is targeted to allow foreign victims of crimes that occurred in Canada—so it's a little different from the 9/11 amendment that I moved from the outset, which you didn't like—to claim restitution and file victim impact statements without being present in Canada. The requirement for foreign victims of crime in Canada to be present in Canada in order to file for restitution or to make a victim impact statement in Canada is, I submit, unfair and unnecessary. These victims should not have to incur the expense of returning to Canada and should be able to make such a statement by video link. That's the advice we got from the Canadian Bar Association and that's what this amendment attempts to do.