Mr. Speaker, first, the Department of Justice is complying with the directive issued.
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Government Contracts June 19th, 2002
Mr. Speaker, first, the Department of Justice is complying with the directive issued.
Government Contracts June 19th, 2002
Mr. Speaker, the public works minister issued a directive, and the Department of Justice—like all other departments, I imagine—, is complying with that directive in every respect.
Government Contracts June 19th, 2002
Mr. Speaker, I will repeat myself. My department is complying with the requests made by my colleague, the minister of public works.
Government Contracts June 19th, 2002
Mr. Speaker, I think I have no choice but to repeat what I said.
The Department of Justice, like all the other departments, which also received it, is complying with the directive issued by the Minister of Public Works and Government Services.
Government Contracts June 19th, 2002
Mr. Speaker, the Department of Justice is complying with the directive issued by my colleague, the Minister of Public Works and Government Services.
Cruelty to Animals June 18th, 2002
Mr. Speaker, I do not understand what the hon. member and his party have against Bill C-15B. It is a bill which modernizes the provisions of the criminal code which were essentially outdated. We did not have, believe it or not, in our criminal code a definition of animal. We had to create new offences as well. Basically the new provisions that we will have with Bill C-15B will put our country in line with what we see in other countries in the world.
Having said that, the bill is in the Senate. As I said, if there are amendments, the Senate alone will decide that.
Cruelty to Animals June 18th, 2002
Mr. Speaker, what the hon. member is talking about, is a bill that we are very proud of on this side of the House, Bill C-15B. It is there to modernize a section of the criminal code, create a definition of animals as well, which we did not have, create new offences in that field, which is very important, and increase penalties.
On this side of the House, we are very proud of what we are doing on the issue of cruelty to animals. Having said that, if there amendments, the Senate will decide that.
Legislative Instruments Re-enactment Act June 12th, 2002
moved that Bill S-41, An Act to re-enact legislative instruments enacted in only one official language be read the first time.
(Motion agreed to and bill read the first time)
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals and firearms) and the Firearms Act June 3rd, 2002
Mr. Speaker, I referred two or three times in my previous answers to the justice system with regard to the process that exists, how it works as regards the criminal code and how we proceed in court with criminal code infractions or offences. I referred to it many times in previous answers and I do not intend to refer to it again.
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals and firearms) and the Firearms Act June 3rd, 2002
Mr. Speaker, in English that is what we call fearmongering. I am talking about Bill C-15B, the bill which is in the House at this point in time. As I said, the defences that exist today will still exist under Bill C-15B. We have created a new provision within the bill in order to make sure that we do refer to the common law defence.
I refer to what has been said by the Criminal Lawyers' Association. It is time we proceeded with the bill. It is long overdue. We have very good support to proceed with modernizing those sections of the criminal code in order to ensure that we will be in line with other administrations. It is long overdue.