Justice committee  Correct, that was LIB-1.

Justice committee  Yes, you're correct. This is a consequential amendment that would be necessary as a result of your decision to vote down the routine police evidence clause. This was a provision that wanted to allow case management judges to hear things related to routine police evidence. Since r

Justice committee  Just very quickly, it's all related to conduct around the theft of cattle, whether it's defacing a brand on an animal to deceive other people that the cattle actually belong to the person who's defaced the brand, or just the fraudulent taking of cattle. It's a historical offence.

Justice committee  It's very similar in the sense that it particularizes a certain type of theft, in terms of lumber or driftwood or equipment related to the lumber industry. My hunch, again, is that historically its presence in the code relates to the importance of that industry in the early years

Justice committee  I don't have that data with me. I don't think it's many, but we would have to verify that with our colleagues at Statistics Canada.

Justice committee  The maximum is five years.

Justice committee  The only thing I would say is that if you adopted this amendment, you would be re-enacting the mandatory minimum penalty that's currently provided. The maximum penalty, as Mr. Cooper has said, would then be consistent with the other maximum penalties proposed for summary convicti

Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  No. The decision, as I think has been articulated, relates to the indictable offences punishable by 10 years or more. If you look at proposed paragraph (b)—

Justice committee  Sorry, it's “or less”. I apologize. If you look at proposed paragraph 245(1)(b), we have the maximum of two years. Did that answer your question?

Justice committee  If you look at proposed paragraph 245(1)(a), it remains at 14 years in the bill, and then 245(1)(b) is where the hybridization would be proposed.

Justice committee  One other piece that might be relevant is that infanticide also operates as a partial defence in the context of murder and can result in a manslaughter conviction.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  I'm not a scientist, and I don't know where the distinctions are in terms of postpartum depression and the baby blues. We know on one end we have mental disorder, and we know on the other end we have depression. Somewhere in the middle we have a diminished capacity, a diminished

Justice committee  Yes. If the mental state of the individual arises to a state where mental disorder has been established, then yes, that would operate as a defence. We were just discussing that if the committee would like more information on the law in this area, we'd be happy to provide some.