Thanks, Chair.
I'm interested in talking about section 176 as well. Mr. Nicholson asked some very good questions, and I appreciate your answers. I thought they were very good and substantive, but to go into that just a little bit more, I look at paragraph 176(1)(b) for example:
(b) knowing that a clergyman or minister is about to perform, is on his way to perform or is returning from the performance of any of the duties or functions mentioned in paragraph (a)
(i) assaults or offers any violence to him, or
(ii) arrests him on a civil process, or under the pretence of executing a civil process,
That's interesting to me because I don't see, specifically in terms of the “civil process” business, that the protections he might have under hate crimes and other things you mentioned would give him that kind of protection. Can you please speak about that?