Justice Committee on May 4th, 2009

Evidence of meeting #19 for Justice and Human Rights in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was drugs.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-15, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts
Committee Business

MPs speaking

Ed Fast
Dominic LeBlanc
Réal Ménard
Libby Davies
Brent Rathgeber
Larry Bagnell
Marc Lemay

Also speaking

Hugh Lampkin  Vice-President, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Deborah Small  Executive Director, Break the Chains
Kirk Tousaw  Beyond Prohibition Foundation
Gord Perks  Councillor, Toronto City Council, and Chair, Toronto Drug Strategy Implementation Plan
Jerome Paradis  Member, Board of Directors, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)
Philippe Lucas  Executive Director, Vancouver Island Compassion Society and Canadians for Safe Access
Eugene Oscapella  Barrister and Solicitor, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Ottawa, As an Individual
Ann Livingston  Executive Director, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users

5:10 p.m.

Bloc

Marc Lemay Bloc Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC

Thank you.

5:10 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Ed Fast

Well, thank you so much.

Mr. Lucas, you're going to have to show me how you flip that pen like that. We've been mesmerized by that. You're very good.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for appearing before us. Your testimony has been helpful and certainly will form part of the public record. We'll move forward and prepare a report in the coming weeks, I'm sure.

Again, thank you.

Members of the committee, if you could stay behind, we have about 15 minutes worth of workplan work to do.

We'll suspend for five minutes.

[Proceedings continue in camera]