Finance committee  I've been seriously attacked and I want to answer.

Finance committee  Thank you very much.

Finance committee  That's okay; I'm just joking. Don't worry. First of all, the problem is not.... If you compare the money laundering legislation and this legislation, it's true that they're on two separate topics, but the reporting requirements for a lawyer, in whatever area we are talking about

Finance committee  If you do it and you should not do it, you don't lose privilege.

Finance committee  I have just one response. In proposed subsection (17), the privilege belongs to the client. Subsection (17) forces the lawyer to make an assessment as to whether or not one portion of his consultation is covered and the other portion is not covered, and all of that without his cl

Finance committee  There's nothing absolute in law. I'm saying we're all in favour of speedy passage of this legislation. If we could avoid further litigation, a very minor amendment to proposed subsection 237.3(17) would close that possibility and I think would respect the integrity of the relatio

Finance committee  The issue here is really professional privilege. I would say that in all “civilized countries”, the lawyer has always had a very special status because of what it is; the solicitor-client relationship is extremely important. I realize that it could be very embarrassing, too, for

Finance committee  It is quite difficult to give you a specific example. Indeed, I would have to invent a scenario because this type of provision is new. However, when a client comes to consult us, generally speaking, we tell him that if he wants to have good service, he must tell us the whole tru

Finance committee  Merci. I wish first to thank you for allowing me to do this from a distance. You can see that the weather would not allow me to be physically present, although I would love to be there. I would also like to say that I'm assuming that our formal brief of February 21, 2013, forms

Finance committee  In this regard, we are going to send the committee a draft amendment for this subsection which would exclude lawyers and notaries specifically from the definition of the word “counsellor” with regard to the reporting requirement. Thank you.