Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs

First Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2001

Chair: The Honourable LORNA MILNE

Wednesday, March 14, 2001

Issue No. 2

Second meeting on: Bill S-4, Federal Law-Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 1

APPEARING:

The Honourable Anne McLellan, P.C., M.P., Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

WITNESSES:

From the Department of Justice Canada:

Alain Bisson, Senior General Counsel, Civil Code Section;

Yves DeMontigny, Special Advisor to the Senior Assistant, Deputy Minister, Public Law;

Alain Vauclair, counsel, Civil Code Section.

Academic:

Professor Nicholas Kasirer, Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law, McGill University.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Lorna Milne, Chair

The Honourable Gérald-A. Beaudoin, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Andreychuk, Atkins, Buchanan, P.C., *Carstairs, P.C. (or Robichaud, P.C.), Cools, Cordy, Fraser, Joyal, P.C., *Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Nolin, Pearson, Rompkey, P.C.

* 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 Cordy substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Moore (March 13, 2001).