Justice committee  Thank you for the question. First, there is a significant differential between sending a Canadian abroad, with the moving and other expenses.... Sometimes, and certainly for our purposes, someone to represent Canada abroad and act as the liaison with other justice departments, b

Justice committee  I have a brief supplemental response. Underlying the question is a very legitimate concern, which is, with all of the money coming and going, are there real reductions. I've been doing this job for a little over a year and I can tell you that I've signed more than 200 letters to

Justice committee  It will be my pleasure.

Justice committee  I will try to answer the question and Marie-Josée might like to add something. There is a vote included for the funding earmarked for communities and provinces. Under vote 1b, funds are earmarked for the administration of those programs. Given how efficient our management of the

Justice committee  I'm just waiting for the bells to start ringing, Mr. Chairman.

Justice committee  Madame Thivierge will be pleased to answer the questions that you have.

Justice committee  First, Mr. Casey, I appreciate your public words of thanks to the department. We're always pleased to assist parliamentarians from all parties in understanding the important legislation that we support the government in advancing. I'll ask Mr. Piragoff to speak briefly to the qu

Justice committee  If we're funding a program, over the five-year life of the program, it's a 50:50 cost share. The aboriginal justice strategy is funded in five-year increments. In many provinces, given the responsibility for the administration of justice, they're investing more in serving abori

Justice committee  Thank you for your question. The budget of the director of public prosecutions comes from the Department of Justice portfolio, but it is independent. It is up to him to explain and defend his budget requests. The minister presents those requests to cabinet and to Parliament, bu

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  I am not saying that I have no idea, but I am the Deputy Minister of Justice. The government decided to divide the Department of Justice into two. In fact, as soon as the government was elected, it created a separate office. I cannot speak for the previous deputy minister or for

Justice committee  I would be happy to, Mr. Chair. The aboriginal justice strategy is a long-standing program. It was established in 1991. As the minister said previously, there are 275 programs that reach over 800 communities. As was referred to in an earlier question, the origins of the aborigin

Justice committee  I have no opening statement, Mr. Chair. We welcome your questions. I'm here with Don Piragoff, senior assistant deputy minister responsible for the policy sector. Also with me is Marie-Josée Thivierge. Ms. Thivierge is responsible for the administration and the financial issu

Justice committee  Mr. Chair, documents were provided, for example, to Parliament in respect to the costing of Bill C-10 at the time, in terms of requests, and we certainly continue to watch the impact of this. We don't run a comprehensive database. Over 80% of the administration of justice is done

Justice committee  That has to do with our second strategic objective. We don't have any exact figures regarding that because we provide departments with legal advice. We provide legal services to all departments and regional offices to help them with their operations, and with bills and policy-mak