Fisheries committee  While in our view it's always good drafting for Parliament to expressly articulate the mental element for particular offences, there are certainly examples in the Criminal Code of offences that don't have a particular mens rea articulated. The Supreme Court has made clear that wh

Fisheries committee  I'm not going to be able to provide very much helpful information on this because my expertise is in criminal law. This is really a question about the conventions related to legislative drafting more generally. However, I can say that in my experience drafting legislation, someti

Fisheries committee  I can only say that at first blush, that does sound like a reasonable proposition. However, the explanation from my colleague at the Department of Justice, who is a legislative drafter, sounded exactly like the sort of thing that she would be an expert in and it also sounds reaso

Fisheries committee  Jacqueline Yost.