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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs

Second Session Thirty-fifth Parliament, 1996

Chair: The Honourable SHARON CARSTAIRS

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Thursday, October 24, 1996

Issue No. 31

Second meeting on:

Examination of Bill S-3, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (plea bargaining)

INCLUDING: THE FIFTEENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE (Bill C-42)

• Minutes of Proceedings
• Fifteenth Report
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings (61K)

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WITNESSES:

For Bill S-3:

From the Department of Justice:

Mr. Yvan Roy, General Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Criminal and Social Policy Sector;

Mr. Fred Bobiasz, Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Criminal and Social Policy Sector.

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MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Sharon Carstairs, Chair

The Honourable Pierre Claude Nolin, Deputy Chairman

and

The Honourable Senators:

Beaudoin, Doyle, *Fairbairn, P.C. (or Graham), Ghitter, Gigantès, Jessiman, Lewis, Losier-Cool, *Lynch-Staunton (or Berntson), Milne, Moore, Pearson

* Ex Officio Members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the Committee:

Pursuant to Rule 85(4), membership of the Committee was amended as follows:

The name of the Honourable Senator Gigantès was substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Stanbury. (October 23, 1996)

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