Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
Minister, thank you for being here, and thank you for making 230 judicial appointments on your watch, a hundred in 2017, and the most of any minister of justice in over 20 years. I think it's also worth congratulating you that over half are women, eight are indigenous, 20 are from visible minority communities, 13 identify as LGBTQ2 and three identify as persons with disabilities. Bravo, that's a lot of work, and it's nice to see that people will be sitting on the bench for many years.
I also want to thank you for understanding in this legislation, though it's not explicit, that families come in all shapes, sizes and configurations. I went to my iPhone once and wanted to text David an image of what our family could look like at some point. He's Jamaican. There's no emoji that exists for a white man and a black man to have two kids, so I said, “Maybe some day when we have kids, we'll just send the image of our family into Apple and they'll give us a new emoji in the future”.