Justice committee  Not to our knowledge, no.

Justice committee  We hope so, too.

Justice committee  Legislators should do what the standing joint committee does, which is notify the Minister of Justice. At that point, the message will be forwarded to us and we will duly note it. Unfortunately I do not have the text you referred to in front of me, but we did take note of it. We will have a closer look at it to determine whether it could be improved.

Justice committee  I want to start by saying that these discrepancies were not detected when the bills were being written. Otherwise, they would have been avoided. As for how we are made aware of them, it is part of a process: statutes are constantly being examined to see if they are still up to date or if they need to be modified.

Justice committee  In our work, we must look at everything that is part of the text of the statute.

Justice committee  If I may, I would like to clarify and say that we avoid talking about translation when it comes to federal statutes. They are co-drafted simultaneously in English and French.

Justice committee  Yes. They are co-drafted by legislative drafters. They work together in an environment that involves various processes, including revisions, printing of bills and so on. The quality of federal statutes is very tightly controlled, in both English and French. We work with revisers and jurilinguists.

Justice committee  You mean beneficiaries for the provisions. That is what we were told by Veterans Affairs.

Justice committee  We treat each of the amendments we receive with the same care, whether they come from the committee or from the various departments. Each one is studied closely. If there is any doubt, we leave it out. If there is even the slightest possibility that the amendments could be controversial, require spending public funds, create a new offence, subject a class of persons to an existing offence or affect the rights of persons, we do not include them.

Justice committee  We are in the process of completing our reply to the various questions, and we are set to attend a meeting of the committee tomorrow to provide them with our various answers. In some instances we referred to particular departments that are responsible for the application of the various laws, but we will have answers for all of these questions.

Justice committee  We will have answers to reassure them at least of the soundness of our initial conclusion. That being said, it will be that committee's right, of course, to decide if they nevertheless want to withdraw any of the proposals.

Justice committee  No, we are not.

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Not to our knowledge, but we will double-check.

Justice committee  The proposals comes from a number of departments, which are responsible for enforcing federal statues. Over time, departments notice there are corrections that need to be made. The legislation section is often called upon to amend laws, as per our mandate, so when we see things, we make note of the amendments that would be advisable.