Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, I have a two-part question. Here is part one.
You mentioned offenders who have offended multiple times as providing one of the rationales for amending legislation in this manner. I'd ask you—not today, as I assume you don't have it with you—to table whatever documentation, data, or whatever you're relying upon to support the assertion that it's necessary to amend this bill because of that problem. There must be something.
Let me just get the second part out.
The other thing is this. The purpose of the legislation—I read this before—as you indicated it was in your speech, on page 8, is an opportunity to start over with what amounts to a clean slate. I'd like to know whether, if somebody gets a record suspension, they will be able to say when asked, as on a job application, that they do not have a criminal record. And when a criminal record search is done, will the record suspension show, will the previous record show, or will they actually have that “clean slate” that is enunciated here as the purpose?