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44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 21, 2024
The Chair (Ms. Lena Metlege Diab (Halifax West, Lib.))
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Good morning. I call the meeting to order. Welcome to meeting number 99 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Pursuant to the order adopted by the House on February 15, the committee is meeting in public to study the subject matter of the supplementary estimates, 2023-24, under the Department of Justice. Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format. Members are attending in person in the room and remotely using the Zoom application. Witnesses are all attending in person today. The members attending by video conference have been sound-tested and are aware of our procedure, including interpretation, so I won't go through that lengthy explanation this morning. I want to inform the members that we're studying the subject matter of the supplementary estimates for the first hour. There will be no votes on the items. I want to welcome today the Honourable Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and solicitor general of Canada. It's not solicitor general. Solicitor general was back in the 1980s. The reason I know that is that I was in high school and I participated in the first model Parliament. I was nominated or elected—I don't know if it was a nomination or an election—as the solicitor general. After that, they deleted solicitor general from the books. Welcome Attorney General.
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