Information & Ethics committee  The short answer is no. I don't think there is a risk that this would be the case, but I need to insist that you are focusing on an exception. The thrust of my submission is that the regime itself is inadequate and unnecessary. There are two aspects to this bill. One is accounta

Information & Ethics committee  That is a very important question. Why are judges in a position that is not comparable to that of elected officials or members of the bureaucracy? They are in a different position, I would submit, for at least three reasons. The first, as I've just mentioned, is that their expe

Information & Ethics committee  The decision that the bill proposes to have made by the commissioner or the registrar and that I have suggested should be made by the chief justice of the court concerned is the decision as to whether the contemplation and publication of a given judicial expense could undermine j

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, Thank you for inviting the Canadian Superior Courts Judges Association to give its views on Bill C-58. My name is Pierre Bienvenu. I'm a lawyer in private practice at Norton Rose Fulbright, and I have long represented the association in r