REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE

Thursday, December 4, 2014

The Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has the honour to present its

TWENTIETH REPORT

Your committee, to which was referred Bill C-483, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (escorted temporary absence), has, in obedience to the order of reference of Thursday, June 19, 2014, examined the said bill and now reports the same without amendment.

Your committee has also made certain observations, which are appended to this report.

Respectfully submitted,

BOB RUNCIMAN

Chair

OBSERVATIONS to the
Twentieth Report of the
Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
(Bill C-483)

The committee recommends that the government also consider transferring the authority for granting escorted temporary absences for those designated as dangerous offenders to the Parole Board of Canada, in the same manner as is being proposed in Bill C-483 for those sentenced to life imprisonment as a minimum punishment.