Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs

First Session Thirty-sixth Parliament, 1997-98

Chair: The Honourable LORNA MILNE

Monday, December 7, 1998

Issue No. 47

Seventh and eighth meetings on: Bill C-3, An Act respecting DNA identification and to make consequential amendments to the Criminal Code and other Acts

APPEARING:

The Honourable Lawrence MacAuley, P.C., M.P., Solicitor General of Canada

WITNESSES:

Morning sitting

From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner:

Mr. Bruce Phillips, Commissioner;

Mr. Eugene Oscapella, Policy Advisor.

From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police:

Mr. Phillip Murray, Commissioner;

Dr. Ron Fourney, Research Scientist, DNA Methods and Data Bank, Central Forensic Laboratory;

Mr. Barry Gaudette, Chief Scientist, Central Forensic Laboratory.

Afternoon sitting

From the Department of the Solicitor General of Canada:

Mr. Jean Fournier, Deputy Minister;

Ms Yvette Aloisi, Director General, Police and Law Enforcement Directorate;

Mr. Paul DuBrule, Director, Legislative Services.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Lorna Milne, Chair

The Honourable Pierre Claude Nolin, Acting Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Andreychuk, Beaudoin, Bryden, Buchanan, P.C., Eyton, Fraser, Grafstein, * Graham, P.C. (or Carstairs), Joyal, P.C., * Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella (Acting)), Moore, Pépin

* Ex Officio Members