Mr. Harris has the floor.
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NDP
Jack Harris NDP St. John's East, NL
But if it gets there because it happens to be another type of offence, it has gone through a court martial, then it's there and it needs to be removed.
What I'm saying is if Parliament, in amending the Criminal Records Act to add section 6.1, felt it was required to put in that section to purge CPIC of an absolute discharge, or a conditional discharge after the conditions have been met and whatever follows—an automatic removal of that, if that was felt necessary—then why wouldn't it be necessary to put in an additional step that we're talking about here? This is to make sure the CPIC records are purged and we don't have people being denied entry to the United States, or whatever other consequences flow, which Justice LeSage pointed out in saying that he wanted “...to avoid consequences totally disproportionate to the violation”.
That's what we're trying to achieve. I think this section is not overly intrusive. It basically says that the references to those offences be removed from the CPIC database. That's our position.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
Okay. That's a motion from Mr. Harris for amendment NDP-21, reference number 5996241.
(Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])
We're at clause 75 as amended.
Shall clause 75 carry as amended?
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An hon. member
On division.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
(Clause 75 as amended agreed to on division [See Minutes of Proceedings])
We're down to the short title.
Shall the short title carry?
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An hon. member
Why?
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A voice
On division.
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
On division.
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
On division.
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
On division.
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Conservative
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
Shall the committee order a reprint of the bill as amended for the use of the House at report stage?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
I want to thank our hard-working interpreters who had to keep up with all that very technical discussion. I appreciate that very much and for the time they put in.
I want to thank all the support staff, our analysts, and clerks who worked here.
I want to thank Colonel Gibson and Colonel Dufour for sticking it out to this late hour and to being here at previous meetings as technical witnesses. You may give them a round of applause if you wish.
[Applause]
Now I'll have a motion to adjourn.
