Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Minister, thanks for being here today, and congratulations as well. This is my first time speaking at committee, so I'm joining the program already in progress, so to speak. To give you some context, my riding is an agricultural one, and my family operates a small cow-calf op

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  So that would include certain minerals that are often used to entice, as you said, a deer, for example, and calls that would be used that provoke responses from the animals that advantage the hunter. Those would not be included here, or they are safe in the common law interpretat

Justice committee  Okay. With regard to farming practices, you'd mentioned artificial insemination as one. Were the groups that were consulted satisfied with the direction that was adopted in the proposed changes?

Justice committee  It's a comprehensive list.

Justice committee  Okay. Thank you very much, Minister.

Justice committee  Thanks very much, Mr. Chair. We've heard this morning that there seems to be a consensus around supporting a proposed prohibition on ownership of animals for individuals convicted of bestiality offences, recognizing that there might be an opportunity to remove the requirement fo

Justice committee  That's right.

Justice committee  Okay. Thanks very much.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to both of the witnesses for joining us today. It's been a theme in hearing testimony that it's clandestine in nature. Obviously, people keep these activities secret because they're heinous—to put it bluntly. Hearing descriptions of animal fig

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Mr. Eccles, do you think that the change to “an arena for animal fighting” is a sufficient change in wording—from it strictly being a cockpit—for enforcement purposes?