Justice committee  Clause 37 of Bill C-23 seeks to amend the way in which information regarding probation is conveyed to the offender. In the past, pursuant to the existing provision, the court arranged for the accused to obtain certain information whereas pursuant to the new clause 37, the court i

Justice committee  Again, this is a drafting amendment. If you compare the English and French versions, you will see that the word “maximale” does not appear in the French version, when it fact it should. Once again, this amendment corrects a drafting error.

Justice committee  The purpose of amendment G-6 is the same as that of amendment G-4. Clause 39 seeks to amend the way in which certain information about the procedure to be followed for paying fines is conveyed to the offender. However, there is no attempt on our part to alter the nature of the in

Justice committee  The purpose of the amendment is to correct a drafting error. If no amendment is made and the words “or the re-election was made under subsection 565(2)” are not added to the English version, when a preferred indictment is filed and the accused wishes to re-elect, he could force a

Justice committee  Here again, the proposed amendment would correct a drafting oversight with respect to the regime set out under section 568. The drafters neglected to reflect this change in section 569 which pertains to Nunavut's unique situation. Under section 568, an accused may re-elect, when

Justice committee  That's right.

Justice committee  If I may, I would like to provide some explanation on this issue. The aim of clause 23 is to allow the accused the option of re-electing without the consent of the prosecutor, when the latter has filed a preferred indictment. The aim of the government amendment is therefore to co

Justice committee  In general, an indictment may have, depending on the number of counts, one, two, or three pages. But if for some reason we're talking about a mega-trial and it involves many accounts, then it may go up to five or six pages. But it's rarely more than that.

Justice committee  Subsection 1.

Justice committee  If it is still the intention of the members of the committee to mention GPS explicitly in the legislation, it would be best mentioned in subsection 492.1(1). There is nothing in the existing section that explicitly bans the use of GPS, which is indeed a tracking device. The amend

Justice committee  The amendment would modify subsection 487.01(4), which deals with a warrant authorizing an officer to observe. We're talking about visual observation. The amendment is intended to add what we commonly call GPS, that is to say global positioning systems, to this section, which in

Justice committee  The changes to section 1 are intended to reorganize all of the provisions of the Criminal Code that deal with proof of service of documents under section 4 of the Criminal Code. Following that, you will see that in light of other sections of Bill C-23, we will proceed to repeal

Justice committee  Usually, when an individual is arrested, he is indeed taken before a justice of the peace. If the Crown is against releasing him, a bail hearing must be held. With respect to language the hearing is held in, I will defer to my colleague. However, there are two possibilities with

Justice committee  No, the bill—

Justice committee  This bill proposes amendments that we consider to be technical and minor corrections to be made to the current system. That particular amendment would apply in situations involving Internet betting. The other controversy you raised is a significant one, and we are working on it a