Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank both witnesses for being present today, and I also want to welcome the new ombudsman for victims of crime. I will say that I sympathize with him for having been called before a parliamentary committee when he's barely settled into the chair, and I appreciate his intention to consult widely before taking on more specific perceptions.
I want to start by asking you, Mr. Roebuck, if you believe that when Parliament acted quickly this did anything at all to stem the perception that a big gap had been opened in the Criminal Code that would allow perpetrators to get away with crimes by claiming extreme intoxication.