Justice committee  It depends on the sort of legal understanding of it. We're nervous about the word “counsel” specifically, because obviously social workers and mental health providers can be said to be counselling their clients or their patients. We would certainly feel better overall if there we

Justice committee  If it were made clear in some sort of addendum or other publication directly from the Department of Justice or the federal government that absolutely, counselling professionals, regulated professionals, social workers—that sort of encadre, en Français, that group of professionals

Justice committee  I have it clearly written out in the submission we did online. It's not in the oral notes, but I can certainly provide it.

Justice committee  Thank you and good morning. On behalf of the board of the Canadian Association of Social Workers and our provincial and territorial partner organizations, I'd like to thank this committee for choosing to hear the perspective of social work on Bill C-14. Our organization was fou