Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs

First Session, Forty-first Parliament, 2011-12

Chair: The Honourable BOB RUNCIMAN

Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Issue No. 29

Third (final) meeting on:

Bill C-36, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (elder abuse)

and

Fourth and fifth (final) meetings on:

Bill C-293, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (vexatious complainants)

INCLUDING:
THE EIGHTEENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
Bill C-36, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (elder abuse)

THE NINETEENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
Bill C-293, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (vexatious complainants)

THE TWENTIETH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
Special study on the provisions and operation of the Act to amend the Criminal Code (production of records in sexual offence proceedings), S.C. 1997, c. 30

• Minutes of Proceedings, December 11, 2012
• Minutes of Proceedings, December 12, 2012
• Minutes of Proceedings, December 13, 2012
• Eighteenth Report
• Nineteenth Report
• Twentieth Report
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, December 11, 2012 (7K)
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, December 12, 2012 (102K)
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, December 13, 2012 (5K)

WITNESSES

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Office of the Correctional Investigator:

Howard Sapers, Correctional Investigator;

Ivan Zinger, Executive Director and General Counsel.

Victims of Violence Canadian Centre for Missing Children:

Sharon Rosenfeldt, President.

As individuals:

Rob Sampson, Past Chair, Correctional Service of Canada Review Panel (by video conference);

John Martin, Criminologist, University of the Fraser Valley;

John Conroy, Lawyer (by video conference).

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Bob Runciman, Chair

The Honourable Joan Fraser, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Baker, P.C., Boisvenu, *Cowan (or Tardif), Dagenais, Frum, Jaffer, Joyal, P.C., *LeBreton, P.C. (or Carignan), Ngo, Plett, Rivest, White

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 12-5, membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Plett replaced the Honourable Senator Andreychuk (December 13, 2012).

The Honourable Senator Rivest replaced the Honourable Senator Cowan (December 12, 2012).

The Honourable Senator Andreychuk replaced the Honourable Senator McIntyre (December 12, 2012).