An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (certificate and special advocate) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in September 2008.
This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in September 2008.
Omar Alghabra Liberal
Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)
Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of March 4, 2008
(This bill did not become law.)
This is from the published bill.
This enactment amends the provisions of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act relating to the security certificate process to ensure that
(a) all relevant information or evidence will be provided to the court and the special advocate;
(b) the special advocate will have continued access to the person named in the certificate;
(c) evidence will be disclosed to the person named in the certificate in a manner consistent with section 38.11 of the Canada Evidence Act;
(d) the person named in the certificate will have a role in choosing his or her special advocate;
(e) the special advocate will be sufficiently independent of government;
(f) the special advocate will owe a duty of confidentiality to the person named in the certificate;
(g) evidence obtained by torture or cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment will not be allowed;
(h) there will be limits on indefinite detention; and
(i) the special advocate function will be extended to proceedings under section 38.11 of the Canada Evidence Act.
All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.
Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-523s: