Thank you very much, Madam Speaker and members of the committee.
My name is Julie Macfarlane and I am an emerita distinguished professor of law.
In my presentation today, I'm going to say a few words about some research that I conducted in 2010 to 2012 and the book that I wrote as a result, which was about Muslim marriage and divorce customs in North America as practised amongst North American Muslims, both here in Canada and in the U.S.—