Thank you, Mr. Minister.
Mr. Minister, I'll pick up right there, because with the greatest of respect, I believe you're incorrect about this. And it could be a question of sloppy drafting, but Bill C-23B says, in proposed subsection 4(2):
(2) Subject to subsection (3), a person is ineligible to apply for a record suspension if he or she has been convicted of
(a) an offence referred to in Schedule 1;
Now the exception you refer to, subsection 4(3), says “A person who has been convicted of an offence referred to in item 3 of Schedule 1”—it's not schedule 1, but item 3 of schedule 1—“may apply for a record suspension if the Board is satisfied that” the person was not in a position of trust, the person didn't use violence, and less than five years....
I'm looking at the schedules, and there are three pieces to schedule 1. There's 1, “Offences”; 2, “Offences”; and 3, “Offences”. Item 3 of schedule 1 is a very short version. The offences that are being referred to here in section 1, voyeurism, etc., are not covered by the exception to which you refer. So I would ask you to perhaps revisit that. It could be what you intend, but the way it's drafted now, it is not schedule 1; it is item 3 of schedule 1 that allows that exception.