Peter Julian at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

On February 5th, 2024. See this statement in context.

February 5th, 2024 / 4:55 p.m.

NDP

Peter Julian NDP New Westminster—Burnaby, BC

Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.

I will start with Mr. Shipley and Ms. Bahr-Gedalia.

We have had this legislation basically sitting now for 20 months. It was introduced in June 2022. We're coming up to the second-year anniversary and we're only beginning, really, the hearings about the legislation.

How important is it that we move forward quickly on this, given the problems all of our witnesses have enumerated? What would you suggest, in terms of a time frame, given the length of time it has taken to get the bill this far?

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