Thank you, Chair.
Welcome, Minister. Thank you to your officials.
I am going to try to focus my questions on Bill C-40.
I will begin by asking you, Minister, to expand a little on the interplay between your statutory responsibilities when it comes to potential miscarriages of justice and what this bill would do—if and when it is passed—in the creation of a new commission that would take on that responsibility. You mentioned in your remarks that you would retain some of the existing statutory responsibilities in this regard, but you also alluded to the commission.
In cases where, for example, in the territories where there are no provincial attorneys general and you still are the presiding attorney general with responsibilities can you clarify what the role of the commission is in initiating a process or a preliminary review step by step, and what your responsibilities are? Help us understand the sequence of how that process will play out between your office and the new commission when it's set up?