Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Issue 1 - First Report of the Committee
Thursday, November 15, 2007
The Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has the honour to table its
FIRST REPORT
Your committee, which was authorized by the Senate to incur expenses for the purpose of its examination and consideration of such legislation and other matters as were referred to it, reports, pursuant to Rule 104, that the expenses incurred by the committee during the First Session of the 39th Parliament are as follows:
With respect to its examination of legislation:
Professional and Other Services: $ 24,042 Transport and Communications: 0 Other Expenditures: 79 Witness Expenses: 46,810 Total: $ 70,931
Your committee examined 17 bills, three of which were reported without amendment:
Bill C-4, An Act to amend An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Income Tax Act.
Bill S-1001, An Act respecting Scouts Canada.
Bill C-16, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act.
Four bills were reported without amendment but with observations:
Bill S-3, An Act to amend the National Defence Act, the Criminal Code, the Sex Offender Information Registration Act and the Criminal Records Act.
Bill C-19, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (street racing) and to make a consequential amendment to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act.
Bill C-9, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (conditional sentence of imprisonment).
Bill C-18, An Act to amend certain Acts in relation to DNA identification.
In addition, your committee reported the following bills with amendments:
Bill S-202, An Act to repeal legislation that has not come into force within ten years of receiving royal assent.
Bill S-213, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals).
Bill C-31, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Public Service Employment Act.
And finally, your committee reported the following bills with amendments and observations:
Bill C-2, An Act providing for conflict of interest rules, restrictions on election financing and measures respecting administrative transparency, oversight and accountability.
Bill S-4, An Act to amend the Constitution Act, 1867 (Senate tenure).
During the First Session of the 39th Parliament, your committee received 20 orders of reference, held 79 meetings, heard more than 184 hours of testimony from 296 witnesses and submitted 14 reports in relation to its work.
Respectfully submitted,
JOAN FRASER
Chair