Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I certainly agree with you there. There is indeed a lack of data. As the Canadian Bar Association said in the brief it submitted to your committee, why undertake an initiative that seeks to fill a void when we do not even know which void we are trying to fill? This is why I took

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  The concern I would have is if we look at the case of Pearson from the Supreme Court of Canada and at the dissent of Justice McLachlin at the time, whereby she would have struck the section because it was too all-encompassing and went too far.... Reverse onus is an exception, and

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you very much.

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you for the invitation to address you here today. For those of you who don't know my background, I would presume the reason I've been invited is the 23 years of criminal law practice, the fact that I teach criminal law part-time at McGill University's Faculty of Law, and