As I've had the opportunity to indicate to this committee before, and I'll reiterate, we engaged in many conversations: I with my provincial and territorial counterparts, the attorneys general, at two formal federal, provincial, and territorial meetings. As well, in-between, we continued to have conversations at officials levels, as well as at my level, around various types of reform that we could collectively put forward given the administration of justice responsibilities that we share.
At the first FPT meeting and then at the subsequent FPT meeting, we confirmed six areas of bold reform. That was the word of the provinces, that the reform be “bold”. Certainly, I support the bold reform that we are proposing in many areas, including the reclassification of offences. This is one of the areas that my colleagues in the provinces and territories were supportive of.