Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Minister, for being available for this important bill.
I want to convey to committee members that I have two notices of motion, and I will read them now. We won't debate them now, as I understand it. I don't want to cut into the minister's time, but I did want members to be aware of these notices of motion.
The first one says:
That the Committee invite the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada to appear to answer questions with respect to any rules, precedents, or procedures related to the invocation of cabinet confidence to prevent the disclosure of information as requested by counsel in a trial process.
This, obviously, relates to the Norman issue.
My second notice of motion is:
That, pursuant to the Order of Reference of Wednesday, October 24, 2018, the Committee consider the Supplementary Estimates (A) before the reporting deadline set out in Standing Order 81(5); and that the Committee invite the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada to appear in view of this study.
I want to get that on the record and proceed with a few questions and answers, if you don't mind, Minister.
First of all, I note that there's quite an increase in the judicial system when it comes to self-represented litigants. That's true of many courts, not just the family court, of course. Bill C-78 is now four times longer than the previous act, so non-lawyers are going to have difficulty, I would say, digesting all of that and making sense of it.
I wanted to get your thoughts, Minister, on how this will impact case management and not lead to a further bogging down of the family court system, which, I think you will agree, is somewhat overburdened right now.