Justice Committee on Dec. 2nd, 2014

Evidence of meeting #56 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 operators.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-32, An Act to enact the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights and to amend certain Acts
Bill S-221, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (assaults against public transit operators)

MPs speaking

Mike Wallace
Corneliu Chisu
Françoise Boivin
Blaine Calkins
David Wilks
Sean Casey
Kyle Seeback
Bob Dechert
Ève Péclet
Robert Goguen

Also speaking

Bob Runciman  Senator, CPC, Senate
Michael Roschlau  President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Urban Transit Association
Neil Dubord  Chief, Metro Vancouver Transit Police
Matthew Taylor  Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Department of Justice
Pamela Arnott  Director and Senior Counsel, Policy Centre for Victim Issues, Department of Justice

5 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Mike Wallace

Thank you very much.

Thank you, officials, for being here for two days for this and for answering questions from our colleagues.

I will report this back to the House tomorrow.

December 2nd, 2014 / 5 p.m.

NDP

Ève Péclet NDP La Pointe-de-l'Île, QC

This changes a lot of things in the Criminal Code. I want to have a new version in three months.

5 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Mike Wallace

Thank you very much.

We will adjourn until Thursday, when we will do Bill S-2.

5 p.m.

Conservative

Corneliu Chisu Conservative Pickering—Scarborough East, ON

Is it going to be ready with all the amendments and everything? We want to start the debate on Thursday.

5 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Mike Wallace

I don't know. It's up to the House leaders.

The meeting is adjourned.