Anthony Housefather at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

On February 25th, 2019. See this statement in context.

February 25th, 2019 / 4:45 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather

Thank you, everyone.

We will now reconvene the meeting with our second panel of the day.

It is a great pleasure to be joined by Ms. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, senior associate counsel, Woodward and Company, and professor at the University of British Columbia in the law school. Welcome, Ms. Turpel-Lafond. Thank you for joining us.

Here in the room, we have with us, Ms. Wendy Berman, who is a lawyer and partner at Cassels Brock and Blackwell LLP; and Mr. Kenneth Jull, lawyer and academic at Gardiner Roberts. Welcome.

As per our practice, we normally go with the person on video conference first in case anything happens to the connection.

Ms. Turpel-Lafond, the floors is yours. You have eight to 10 minutes.

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