Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs

First Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2001

Chair: The Honourable LORNA MILNE

Wednesday, December 5, 2001

Issue No. 20

First meeting on: Bill C-15A, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to amend other Acts

First and last meeting on: Bill C-40, An Act to correct certain anomalies, inconsistencies and errors and to deal with other matters of a non-controversial and uncomplicated nature in the Statutes of Canada and to repeal certain provisions that have expired, lapsed, or otherwise ceased to have effect

INCLUDING: THE THIRTEENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE (Bill C-40)

APPEARING:

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

WITNESSES:

From the Department of Justice:

Mr. Howard Bebbington, Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section;

Ms Lisette Lafontaine, Senior Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section;

Ms Mary McFadyen, Senior Counsel, Conviction Review Group;

Ms Carole Morency, Coordinator, Children Law Policy Unit, Family, Children and Youth Section.

From the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted:

Mr. Melvyn Green, Board Member.

From the Innocence Project, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University:

Ms Dianne Martin, Professor.

From the Canadian Police Association:

Mr. David Griffin, Executive Agent;

Mr. Sandy Brohman, President of Peel Regional Police Association.

From the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police:

Mr. Mike Shard, Member;

Mr. Vince Westwick, Legal Advisor, Law Amendments Committee.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Lorna Milne, Chair

The Honourable Gérald-A. Beaudoin, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Andreychuk, Buchanan, P.C., *Carstairs, P.C. (or Robichaud, P.C.), Cools, Fraser, Grafstein, Joyal, P.C., *Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Moore, Nolin, Pearson, Rivest.

*Ex Officio Members

(Quorum 4)

Change in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows: