Good morning. I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 94 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the committee is continuing its study of the proposals for the 2023 corrective act.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the Standing Orders. Some members are attending in person and others are attending remotely by using the Zoom application. There are no witnesses today for this meeting.
I believe the members who are attending on Zoom know the rules very well, so I won't go over them.
I just want to say that the sound tests were successfully completed with the members attending the meeting via the Zoom application.
With us today from the Department of Justice for our study on the proposals for the 2023 corrective act are Madame Riri Shen, deputy assistant deputy minister and chief legislative counsel of Canada in the public law and legislative services sector; Monsieur Philippe Denault, senior counsel, advisory and legislative initiatives services, public law and legislative services sector; and, from the same sector, Madame Victoria Netten, legal counsel.
They are present along with many other officials in the room who are all prepared to answer questions related to their respective departments.
To the additional officials who are at the back of the room, if there is a question posed that one of you wishes to answer or will be answering, there's an empty chair right there. Please take that seat with the microphone in front of you.
When we adjourned the meeting last Thursday, the officials had made their opening remarks. We're now ready to begin our study on the proposals.
Before we finish, I'll save about five to 10 minutes at the end of the meeting to discuss Thursday's meeting, and specifically whether the committee wishes to hear from witnesses in the second hour of Thursday's meeting or simply wants to have only the sponsor of the bill for the whole two hours. I'm saying that we'll leave a few minutes at the end of that meeting just so the clerk knows what the intent is.
We can begin the questioning. I'll ask everyone to address their questions through the chair. Let us know you want to speak and we'll make a list.
Go ahead, Mr. Moore.