I can't vote on it. I can't do anything else but speak to it, so thank you, Madam Chair.
By the way, if this committee would like to remove that motion altogether and allow me to present my amendments on future legislation at report stage, that's fine with me.
Okay, Madam Chair, very quickly, PV-9 is to ensure that people who are acting in a role of support to those who are victims are not criminalized if they are communicating information to provide assistance to the victim or the witness.
I know this amendment is quite similar to NDP-1. The reason it's first in the package is that we got it in first. Although NDP-1 is a different attempt to do the same thing, I do think the language here, with all respect to the other amendment, is stronger. The effort here is to ensure that when it's not the purpose of the disclosure to make the information known to the public but to provide support to the victim or the witness—and this is the category of people we're looking at—then legal professionals, counsellors, medical professionals or people in a relationship of trust with the witness or victim are not to be criminalized when acting in their interest.
Thank you, Madam Chair.