Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Hello, Ms. Claveau and Mr. Le Grand Alary. Thank you for being with us this morning.
At the start, you said the pandemic had created issues and it was necessary to modernize criminal procedure. We know that the legal community is sometimes reluctant to improve or change procedures they are familiar with.
I would like you to address certain subjects again. We have talked about what was put in place during the pandemic and the positive aspect of these new ways of doing things. What is being done here is to make these new methods permanent.
One thing I am thinking of is a study that talked about someone who had driven to the location, rented a hotel room, and attended at the courthouse in the morning, only to ultimately find that everything had been postponed. If video appearance had been a possibility, the victim and their family would not have had to travel and incur that expense, and so on.
Personally, I take a very favourable view of the changes being proposed. I would like to hear your comments on that subject.