Welcome, everyone, to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. It is wonderful to see the interest in our committee.
I very much appreciate everyone's presence here today.
This is actually a wonderful lesson on the House of Commons, because a lot of people watch question period and they only see the interaction of parties at question period where there is a lot of gamesmanship, and this committee actually does really good work. We worked together on a study on the court challenges program, which helped bring back the court challenges program. We worked together on a legal aid study. We worked together on a study to help Canadian jurors, which led to the private member's bill of my colleague Mr. Cooper, which will be coming to committee in another week. It will make it easier for jurors to disclose information to psychotherapists and analysts about their jury deliberation experience.
Where we haven't agreed on issues, we've done so with great courtesy.
I hope this will continue today. We welcome several new people. Everyone is welcome.
Definitely this is a time when Canadians are watching us, and they are expecting to see a committee that functions very well.
The issue that brought us here today is that my opposition colleagues have asked for a special meeting to be held, which we happily have convened, to discuss a very serious issue before Canadians. Canadians are rightly concerned right now about the issues related to the former attorney general. Definitely on our side as well, we want to make sure that Canadians understand what has occurred.
We were a little disappointed that the opposition went ahead and drafted a motion without consulting us or working with us, but I get it. That's the way politics works.
We're hoping to find a consensual way to bring the subject to Canadians, and I'd like to ask my colleague Mr. Boissonnault to perhaps put forward something that I think will draw the consensus of everyone.