Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you both very much for joining us today.
I want to talk a bit about the overlapping jurisdiction between the federal criminal law power and provincial animal protection acts and get a sense from you, in looking at this bill, of how those overlapping jurisdictions work on the ground.
When people are charged with offences involving cruelty to animals, is it often that they're charged both criminally, and for example, by an animal protection act in one of the provinces? How do you see that interplay working with the changes in this bill?
I would ask Mr. Eccles to start.