I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 58 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
Pursuant to the House order of March 27, 2023, the committee is beginning its study on Bill C-41, an act to amend the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other acts.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the House order of June 23, 2022. Actually, everyone is attending in person today, so I won't go through the hybrid format.
For the minister and anyone who's new—I think we have a lot of new members today—I use cue cards. When you're down to 30 seconds, I will raise the yellow cue card. When you're out of time, I'll use the red. I will ask you to wrap up with that, so I don't have to interrupt you.
We are pleased to welcome the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, the Honourable Marco Mendicino. Welcome, Minister.
Today we also have, from Public Safety, Sébastien Aubertin-Giguère, assistant deputy minister of the national and cyber security branch. From the Department of Justice we have Robert Brookfield, director general and senior general counsel of the criminal policy section, and Glenn Gilmour, counsel of the criminal law policy section. From Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada we have Selena Beattie, director general of policy and outreach for the Afghanistan sector.
I think we might have some others as well. We welcome you and are glad to have you here.
Minister, you'll have the floor for 10 minutes, as usual. Your opening remarks will be followed by questions from the members of the committee.
The floor is yours.