Status of Women committee  Thank you very much.

Status of Women committee  If this amendment were not passed, then the bill would come into force, I believe, upon royal assent. Delaying the coming into force of the bill for 30 days gives the provinces and territories some time to familiarize themselves with the law to put anything in place that they nee

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. I'll ask my colleague Melissa Moor to speak to this one as well. Go ahead, please.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm taking a look, since I'm thinking on my feet on this one. I'm taking a look to see if I had any suggestions for how exactly that would be worded.

Status of Women committee  Thanks, Claire. That's how it's already used in the other parts of the bill, so this would make it consistent with the terminology in the bill.

Status of Women committee  You would need to replace “violence familiale” in the French with “violence entre partenaires intimes”.

Status of Women committee  Oh. Okay. Thank you very much. As this one would amend the Judges Act, I will ask my colleague from judicial affairs, Melissa Moor, if she could answer this question, please.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. I'm sorry. I think I was looking at the wrong one in the package. Are we looking at LIB-3 right now?

Status of Women committee  As I had mentioned, the focus of these amendments in relation to the bill's provisions is to define the situations in which the judge is obligated to consider imposing this question, so the effect of making this amendment would actually be to.... There is a list of offences in pa

Status of Women committee  Also, note that the wording that's proposed in the amendment is “violence against a person was used, threatened or attempted”, so in the Criminal Code that would include other things, like uttering threats, criminal harassment, and those other types of things. Violence isn't just

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. My knowledge in this area is not complete. It's a very complex area. One thing to begin with in terms of when we were talking about the not reserve area and whether RCMP...we know there are jurisdictions where the RCMP is providing policing services in pr

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the question. You're right that it's already possible to impose the wearing of an electronic bracelet as a condition. What the bill would do is require the judge to impose that condition in certain cases, such as when someone is accused of having committ

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. I'd be happy to speak to that. I'll start with the last point first, because that's a question that I've heard come up over the course of some of the testimony you've heard from witnesses, namely, this question about whether the judge can only impose the con

Status of Women committee  The responsibility for policing falls with the Minister of Public Safety, not with the Department of Justice, so it would be possible to go through that department.

Status of Women committee  In terms of technological capacity, particularly in remote areas and the north, we do hear that access to justice is an issue. The Minister of Justice appeared on Bill S-4. When similar issues were raised, he spoke to the commitment that the Government of Canada has made to bring