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  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  An earlier clause in Bill C-23 amended section 145 of the Criminal Code. That particular amendment has already been adopted by the committee. However, the text of section 145 is reproduced in Form 12 in clause 45.1. Unfortunately, the wording does not reflect the proposed amendme

Justice committee  The committee has already agreed to an amendment to clause 43 of Bill C-23. Henceforth, when a young offender is serving a youth sentence and is also sentenced as an adult... At present, the method of calculating sentences for adults applies to the full sentence imposed on a youn

Justice committee  This committee...

Justice committee  This amendment has been proposed precisely in order to make the wording of the bill similar to the Criminal Code. So, if you look at sections 171 and 172 of the Criminal Code, you find the idea of a person under the age of eighteen years. So this was to make the wording correspon

Justice committee  During our discussions with the provinces, since they are principally responsible for the administration of justice and act as prosecutors in criminal cases, they asked us, in a general way, when amendments deal with criminal proceedings, to give them some latitude in implementin

Justice committee  We have not had specific discussions about the coming into force of the bill. It has been brought to the attention of the provinces, certainly through the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Working Group on Criminal Procedure.

Justice committee  I confess in all honesty that I am not familiar with parliamentary procedure. I defer to the expertise of the committee on that.

Justice committee  There is a mechanism that allows a section to provide that various sections of the bill shall not come into force until an order has been issued, even after the bill has received royal assent. Perhaps this mechanism is the reason why some provisions of the Criminal Code are still

Justice committee  As the minister mentioned earlier, Bill C-2 would allow the joint hearing of related motions presented in separate trials. When some of these separate trials are held in different jurisdictions, the chief judge appointing a case management judge to this joint hearing would also

Justice committee  The case management judge steps in at the preliminary phase of the trial, where the trial judge, per se, has not yet stepped in. If this case is proceeding before a youth court, of course this case management judge would need to come from that court as well. The case would only i