Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll be brief.
I wish to echo my dissatisfaction of having this dropped upon us at the very last minute, in the middle of clause-by-clause, an amendment that fundamentally changes the bill in terms of the definition, a definition that I believe, based upon quite a bit of evidence before our committee, is already vague and overly broad in its scope. Certainly Criminal Code sections that are vague and overly broad cannot stand. They're contrary to fundamental justice.
Monsieur Fortin, I think, rightfully raised questions about who's going to be captured by this. What circumstances might arise in which this section of the code is going to come down upon them and they're suddenly charged with an offence?
The Supreme Court of Canada, in the Mabior decision, was clear that one has the right to know whether or not the act they're engaging in constitutes a crime, and I don't even know, frankly, at this point, what we're voting on or not voting on, because we have such a change to the language of the definition, a definition that I reiterate is problematic, without the benefit of hearing from witnesses to press them in a substantive way on this substantive change.
On that basis, I won't be able to support the amendment.