The Attorney General.

I want to thank the entire team from the Solicitor General’s office to the team from the Minister of the Attorney General’s office for a great bill. I’ve been getting excellent feedback for it in my riding. As you know, Minister Kerzner was in Barrie twice for unfortunate occasions of officers we lost in our local municipality.

With everything that’s going on in the news—and we need more police officers on the ground, we need more boots on the ground—how are bills like this and the work that he’s doing across the province with his whole team and the Ministry of the Attorney General going to help recruit more people into our forces so we have more boots on the ground, so we can inspire the next generation of people and we can have safer and better communities?

Just a few weekends ago, I was at Thee Place for Paws. They do a fundraiser every year. They really applauded the previous work of this government for the PAWS legislation. They also noticed that in this very bill too, we’re strengthening and modernizing the justice act to help enforce animal welfare.

I want to ask my esteemed colleague from Etobicoke–Lakeshore, who is a really big champion on this file, what parts of this bill she has heard about that help animals and how this will strengthen animal protection.