Justice committee  Thank you, Ms. Sansoucy. First of all, I wanted to thank all the witnesses for being here and for your very helpful testimony. I wanted to direct some questions to Ms. McCarthy and to Mr. Melamed. First of all, Ms. McCarthy, thank you for your contribution to family law jurisprudence, and I'm referring to the M. v H. case, which is a seminal piece of jurisprudence.

Justice committee  Exactly. Mr. Melamed, thank you for being here. Your expertise is well known in the family law bar in Toronto. I also salute your astuteness in recognizing the expertise of your better half, Ms. Kraicer, who is indeed quite a constitutional force . I had a few questions. We have about six minutes, so I'd ask you to keep your responses somewhat brief.

Justice committee  Ms. McCarthy.

Justice committee  Have you seen the definition you're proposing in any other legislation, anywhere else?

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to direct my questions to SALCO. It's with some pride and a paternal feeling that I was one of the.... When I was a just-graduated law student, we gathered together and thought of this great idea of creating this legal clinic and that one day maybe they'd make parliamentary submissions.

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Would your support of the removal of peremptories extrapolate to other racialized communities, particularly the black Canadian community, which is equally overrepresented?

Justice committee  Could I ask you a question that may be zooming out a bit on the issue? Do you have any creative ideas about the diversification of the jury pool?

Justice committee  I apologize if you covered this in your testimony, but we heard a lot earlier this afternoon about police officers and routine evidence going in via affidavit as opposed to cross-examining the officer in a criminal proceeding. Do you have a perspective on that from the indigenous clients you serve or other racialized communities?

Justice committee  Okay.

Justice committee  Thank you. In this last minute and a half, I'll confess that it's a bit intellectually challenging, but on the reverse onus and what we're trying to do in terms of addressing intimate partner violence head-on, it's a big commitment of our government. It's a big commitment in what we're trying to do in this legislation.

Justice committee  How much time do I have, Mr. Chair?

Justice committee  Six minutes is perfect. Thank you. Thank you and welcome to everyone. I apologize that I missed some of the oral testimony, but I've read many of the briefs. I want to welcome a constituent. Mr. Mercer, thank you for being here and for your submissions. Mr. Rudin, we heard some testimony earlier today about peremptories.