Citizenship and Immigration committee  Who wants to touch that one?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm going to tread carefully here.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One can't help but wonder what the purpose is when a bill is proposed that seems to either address an inexistent problem, or provides tools that are unnecessary because they already exist, or seems to provide inadequate tools. What we really need if we want to stop violence agai

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I know that a peace bond has been issued to prevent a person from committing an offence related to forced marriage. That is not mentioned in our written presentations that you all have, but we believe that those tools are already in the Criminal Code.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly in the area of provocation we are against the bill, particularly because, as I said, this a really wholesale change to the substantive criminal law and it should not be done in a piecemeal fashion. Even on that basis alone, we believe that Bill S-7 has been put forward

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the invitation to present the Canadian Bar Association's views on Bill S-7. The Canadian Bar Association is a national association of over 36,000 lawyers, notaries, academics, and law students, and an important aspect of our mandate is to seek improvements in law