Justice committee  My understanding is that his reference was to something in Australia. In what I looked at between Monday and today, I think his reference was to the Commonwealth criminal code on Internet offences. It's a criminal law that applies to all of Australia, although criminal law is a s

Justice committee  Perhaps I can add to that. If you look at where the VIN appears on the vehicle, it appears in a number of places and it appears for the purpose of actually identifying that part of the vehicle or the vehicle as a whole. The licence plate, which is issued under a provincial regu

Status of Women committee  On the first question about the federal-provincial-territorial working group on missing women, it's a group of officials of the different federal and provincial governments that brings together their expertise, which is informed by work undertaken at local, regional, and provinci

Status of Women committee  The work that's been undertaken through the federal-provincial-territorial working group on missing women is being informed by the work that exists and has been done elsewhere. So officials at the federal and provincial levels who work on this working group are very much aware of

Status of Women committee  No, it's a government official working group. But obviously we do take into consideration the substantial work undertaken by the Native Women's Association of Canada.

Status of Women committee  First, it is not an investigation. It is a provincial and federal government working group. We also have partners from all sectors, like the RCMP and other federal, provincial and territorial departments. This working group is doing a study. We are examining all the questions th

Status of Women committee  We hope to conclude the report and the study for federal-provincial-territorial ministers later this year, so it is an ongoing--

Status of Women committee  Later in the year--that's all I can say.

Status of Women committee  I'm not in a position to provide the committee with any details about the forthcoming $10 million allocation. All I can do is reiterate to the committee what has already been announced in the budget and indicate that the Minister of Justice himself will be coming forward with the

Status of Women committee  I said the Minister of Justice will be announcing the details in the coming months. That's all I can say.

Status of Women committee  That's correct.

Status of Women committee  I didn't say that.

Status of Women committee  You asked me two questions. First, the government's announcement in the 2010 budget referred to a $10-million investment. The Minister of Justice will be announcing the details of that budget allocation in the coming months. As the budget indicated, it will be looking at expend

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to address the committee as you begin your study on violence against aboriginal women. As requested by the committee, my comments will provide a general overview of the current criminal justice framework regarding violence against wom

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  As you've said in the question, the reforms proposed by Bill C-2 reintroduce what was in Bill C-22, basically increasing the age of protection from 14 to 16 and maintaining the age of protection at 18 for acts related to the sex trade or prostitution. The Criminal Code already pr