Evidence of meeting #45 for Justice and Human Rights in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was question.
Conservative
Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON
Are there any that went through the process that you didn't accept?
Deputy Chief Legislative Counsel, Legislation Section, Department of Justice
Oh, yes.
Conservative
Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON
Okay. Do you know if any of the wording that we're dealing with today has been commented on in any court proceeding or any litigation over the years, or has been the subject of any judicial interpretation?
Deputy Chief Legislative Counsel, Legislation Section, Department of Justice
Not to our knowledge, no.
Conservative
Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON
Okay.
I guess I only have one other point, Mr. Chair, and that is, could you please provide the clerk of our committee with any responses that you make to the Senate committee's requests for clarification? Perhaps, Mr. Chair, we can also file Senator Runciman's letter with the clerk so that we'll have all that on our records as well.
Conservative
Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON
The copy that I have is not but I'm sure there's another one.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Mike Wallace
The letter is from the chair of the justice committee at the Senate. They have done a preliminary review and had some questions, I believe, of certain sections that they put it into writing and the officials are responding in writing and meeting with them tomorrow, I believe. Is that correct?
Conservative
NDP
Françoise Boivin NDP Gatineau, QC
What might be practical though...because I hate redoing or doing the same thing and then realizing that we might be on the same issues right now. I do have a few issues. I think we should get this before....
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Mike Wallace
That's what he's doing. There's no requirement for us to do anything today so....
NDP
Françoise Boivin NDP Gatineau, QC
No, no, no I'm sorry. I was still thinking and I stopped talking which is very rare for me.
Conservative
Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON
Submit the letter and everybody will see it and everybody will see their responses and then we'll have knowledge of what they did.
Conservative
Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON
We can agree or disagree with it but we can move on from there.
Conservative
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Mike Wallace
Those were the general questions. My view—and you can tell me if I'm wrong—is that we would just go to Part 1 and go one by one. If there are any comments or questions we would go through them. If there aren't, we would move on to the next one. We would keep going and see how much we can get done by 5:30. Is that a fair assessment of how we should do things?
NDP
Françoise Boivin NDP Gatineau, QC
That sounds good; just bear with us. Don't go too fast. By the way, great work from the Library of Parliament once again.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Mike Wallace
We don't have to deal with the short title.
In Part 1, the Access to Information Act is clause 2 in this. Does anybody have any comments on clause 2? I see none.
On the Aeronautics Act, are there any comments on that?
The Bank Act? No.
The Bankruptcy and Solvency Act?