Justice committee   then pregnant wife, who had such an engaged husband during her first pregnancy, now had an emotional zombie in me, unable or unwilling to communicate. I expected these feelings to subside as I left the courthouse on the day the verdict was delivered. I expected to experience a period of re

Trade  Mr. Speaker, as we get closer to Halloween, I would like to tell a scary story. Like all good tales of ghosts and zombies, the trans-Pacific partnership is another tale that appeared dead, but apparently is not. Despite an overwhelming percentage of Canadians who want it gone

Justice committee  Colleagues, does anyone else have any questions? If not, I have a short one. By the way, I just wanted to note this for the witnesses. People were suggesting that additional zombie laws should be attacked in this law, and I just want you to understand that it would

Justice committee   dealt with as an aggravating factor on sentencing, and they already are. The only people who are really upset about removing those zombie laws and outdated laws are law professors, who are going to have one less funny story to tell their students about outdated and absurd Criminal

Justice committee   of dealing with a very serious social problem of sex assault. Our brief does go through one of those programs, RESTORE, at length, so I won't discuss that any further now due to the limited time. I'd also like to very quickly touch on the eradication of these so-called “zombie laws

Justice committee   unconstitutional some 25 years earlier. This committee wrote to you. I held a press conference with Bret McCann in December calling on the government to move forward to remove zombie laws, unconstitutional provisions. To your credit, you did introduce Bill C-39 on March 8, and seven months

Industry committee  I would move my questions to Mr. Lawford and Ms. Lau. When we looked at the legislation in the past, there were bot spams, zombie computers, and a whole series of things that were done at that time. In fact, we had the first Facebooks at that time. We had to rely on U.S

Food and Drugs Act   but obstacles since then. The Seattle round never got off the ground. The Doha round is moving at the speed of a zombie in an unending coma. There is something not right in the world of trade. The irrelevance of the Bali package, the Marrakesh protocol, and the subsequent Bill C-13

Criminal Code  . These are often referred to as zombie provisions. Legal scholars have been calling for a very long time for them to be removed from the Criminal Code, and it is past time for Parliament to act. However, this housecleaning bill is not the government's first. In fact, it is the third. Bills C

Status of Women committee   of legislation that will remove what I called a “zombie law” from the books. The coordinating amendment in clause 6 seeks to do the same thing in a different and perhaps more complicated way. It becomes unnecessary because section 159 is no longer part of the section dealing with written

Status of Women committee   unconstitutional. There's a bill before the House to actually remove it from the Criminal Code. This is simply to erase from the books a zombie law that has been deemed unconstitutional. I don't anticipate that will be a problem, but I'll leave it to the members of the committee to object

Justice committee   of them. There have been vacancies in our courts for far too long. The legislative agenda of this government, particularly with justice bills, seems to be in tatters. It has taken 18 months to get bills forward on marijuana legalization, on impaired driving laws, and the zombie

Status of Women committee   that second thought. When you're writing it down, you might also recognize that it's very inappropriate. We have also heard of zombie laws occurring, so I think any time a judge is making a statement or putting something in as a decision, that is a good way of making sure the sources

International Trade committee  . They have a lot of zombie corporations where they're essentially bankrupt, and the Chinese government keeps promising to reform the SOE sector and introduce market reforms, but they do not. They're claiming to, but what they're doing is consolidating a lot of the smaller and mid-sized

Justice committee   the committee in one respect. We did send that letter about zombie clauses in the Criminal Code, and legislation is now at least tabled to deal with some of those clauses, including the one that interested Bret McCann, the constituent of Mr. Cooper. I'm happy about that. Now we'll pause