Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this first meeting of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights related to our study of Bill C-14.
It is a great pleasure to welcome all of you here.
Today's subject matter is difficult. It's subject matter on which we have to reconcile autonomous rights, rights that have been set out in the charter, and rights set out in the Carter decision with the protection of the vulnerable.
The most important thing for me is that we do all of this with great respect. I know that our committee is capable of that, and I'm pleased today to welcome our first witnesses.
We have the Minister of Justice, the Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, and the Minister of Health, the Honourable Jane Philpott. With them, from the Department of Justice, we have William Pentney, the deputy minister and deputy attorney general; and from the Department of Health, Simon Kennedy, the deputy minister.
I'm going to turn it over to you, ministers. I'm not sure which one of you is going to speak first, but you're very welcome here.