Thank you for your question.
We're all members of Parliament, as you know, and most people on the committee are lawyers. We also have some former police officers on the committee.
Our government has actually put forward a significant amount of legislation in this Parliament in the area of criminal law, so I think my colleagues would agree with me that we've been very busy over the last three and a half to four years reviewing, amending, and sending that legislation on to Parliament for further approval.
We have dealt with many different issues, such as cyberbullying, where young people especially are often bullied over the Internet and forced to reveal intimate images of themselves, and there are terrible repercussions for them when that happens. We have had to deal with a response by our Supreme Court to a number of cases. For example, in the area of prostitution we introduced a bill that substantially changed our laws in Canada toward prostitution, adopting something similar to the model they have in the Scandinavian countries. We've also significantly strengthened penalties for criminals who use guns when committing crimes, violent personal offences, violent assault. We also examined a bill, which was passed, that gave significant new rights and powers to victims of crime.
From time to time we also do studies on the law, for example how the legal system treats accused persons who suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome. We just completed a study on that issue.