Justice committee I think they previously said that was part of it, but most lawyers, prosecutors that we're going to hire under this budget will handle drug cases.
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders
Justice committee Corruption is organized crime and a little of that as well. Drugs are often linked to organize crime.
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders
Justice committee You'd have to look at the legislation. That is an example of wording that would make it impossible for an interpretation that the Attorney General--
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders
Justice committee Let me refer to the Interpretation Act, subsection 24(2), which says that anything that can be done by a minister can, in effect, be done by the deputy minister. The principle of delegation and authority from a minister to a deputy minister is not established in legislation, bu
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders
Justice committee Yes.
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders
Justice committee The two main criteria are competence and integrity.
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders
Justice committee We publish advertisements in the newspapers, and we conduct competitions and evaluations.
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders
Justice committee We have a supervisor in each region who is responsible for managing attorneys. We also have a team here in Ottawa that is responsible for managing attorneys.
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders
Justice committee We talked about that in our annual report, which we filed in June.
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders
Justice committee Not in the annual report.
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders
Justice committee In relation to your first question, on whether I have issued a directive or a clarification, no, I have not.
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders
Justice committee I guess in my mind the prosecutors fulfilled their responsibility. They applied the principles set out in the deskbook. They were brought a case by the investigative agency, the Canada Border Services Agency, and asked to apply the principles that all prosecutors apply, and they
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders
Justice committee The deskbook is available on our Web site.
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders
Justice committee I'll answer the second question first. Our department would not be involved in any civil litigation. We're involved in criminal or regulatory matters only.
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders
Justice committee They keep very much to themselves when they conduct investigations. You also asked who in the Department of Justice would have been involved in providing advice. There would have been civil litigators. I recall that a number of outside counsel were retained by the Department of
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Brian Saunders