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October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger
Justice committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the committee members for having me. I am pleased to participate in your study of the document titled Proposals for a Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2014. This document was developed as part of the law amendment program and
October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger
Justice committee To be honest, I was hoping someone would ask that. Thank you very much. It has been a while, but I must point out that there need to be enough proposals to draft a document that is worth taking up the time of committees in both Houses. These are minor amendments, so it also depe
October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger
Justice committee We are hoping that you will agree to amending them, but we have survived 13 years without these changes. Not all of them are that old; some are newer than others.
October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger
Justice committee If I understand correctly, you want to know if these provisions were included in any bills that have been studied during the current session, namely the 2nd session of the 41st Parliament.
October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger
Justice committee Exactly. The correspondence is addressed to the minister, and they are sent to us internally, via the department.
October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger
Justice committee You mean the law amendment acts?
October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger
Justice committee That is some of what we do. We at the justice department are responsible for the program.
October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger
Justice committee First of all, I can tell you that we're not happy about that either. That said, there are changes to be made to the English versions as well. The process of co-drafting is still the best way to ensure linguistic equivalence; however, inconsistencies can still creep in at times du
October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger
Justice committee Thank you.
October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger
Justice committee Thank you. Yes, these proposals have been included in the document submitted to you because each of them has been rigorously analyzed and we concluded that they were worth proposing to you. That said, we are fully aware that the term “non-controversial” can be somewhat subjectiv
October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger
Justice committee Not to our knowledge, but we will double-check.
October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger
Justice committee The proposals comes from a number of departments, which are responsible for enforcing federal statues. Over time, departments notice there are corrections that need to be made. The legislation section is often called upon to amend laws, as per our mandate, so when we see things,
October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger
Justice committee We worked on them together.
October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger
Justice committee We are in the process of completing our reply to the various questions, and we are set to attend a meeting of the committee tomorrow to provide them with our various answers. In some instances we referred to particular departments that are responsible for the application of the v
October 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Jean-Charles Bélanger