I would like to welcome everyone to this meeting of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
We are continuing to study Bill C-242, an act to amend the Criminal Code, inflicting of private acts of torture. I am very pleased to welcome our witnesses from the Department of Justice who are here today.
We have Donald Piragoff, who is the senior assistant deputy minister in the policy sector, and Laurie Wright, who is the assistant deputy minister of the public law sector. We're also joined by Glenn Gilmore and Dan Moore.
Thank you so much, to all of you, for coming to testify before our committee.
Since we are studying a private member's bill, there will be no testimony from departmental officials. They will simply answer questions.
We will now begin our first round of questions.
We're going to start with Mr. Falk.