Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome back, Minister.
I actually see this as a relatively non-partisan issue. I don't know why it was necessary for Mr. Lobb to throw out that G-8/G-20 question. I could easily throw out the question, “Why did we have two prorogations?” We could been here earlier as well. So I don't think that was quite necessary.
Going to the bill, I want to analyze it from a public safety perspective. I have no problem with changing the terminology from “pardon” to “record suspension”. That's fine. The three strikes for not qualifying for a pardon are also fine.
In clause 1, the phraseology is “Eliminating Pardons for Serious Crimes Act”. Do you think that making obscene phone calls and being convicted of that is a serious crime that would, in essence, not allow somebody to receive a record suspension?