Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17
Chair: The Honourable SERGE JOYAL, P.C.
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Issue No. 32
First meeting:
Election of the chair
and
First (final) meeting:
Bill C-60, 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 Acts and provisions that have expired, lapsed or otherwise ceased to have effect
INCLUDING:
THE TWENTY-SECOND REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Bill C-60)
- Order of Reference
- Minutes of Proceedings, November 22, 2017
- Minutes of Proceedings, November 29, 2017
- Twenty-second Report
- Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, November 22, 2017
- Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, November 29, 2017
WITNESSES
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Department of Justice:
Mala Khanna, Deputy Assistant Deputy Minister, Public Law and Legislative Services Sector;
Jean-Charles Bélanger, Deputy Chief Legislative Counsel (Legislation), Legislative Services Branch, Public Law and Legislative Services Sector;
Jacqueline Yost, Legislative Counsel, Legislative Services Branch, Public Law and Legislative Services Sector.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Serge Joyal, P.C., Chair
The Honourable Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, Deputy Chair
The Honourable Renée Dupuis, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Batters, Boniface, Carignan, P.C., *Day (or Mercer) Fraser, Gold, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare), (or Mitchell), McIntyre, Pratte, Sinclair, *Smith (or Martin), White, *Woo (or Saint-Germain)
*Ex officio members
(Quorum 4)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the order of the Senate of November 7, 2017, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator Fraser replaced the Honourable Senator Jaffer (November 29, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Sinclair replaced the Honourable Senator Pate (November 23, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Pate replaced the Honourable Senator Sinclair (November 22, 2017).
The Honourable Senator White was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator McIntyre was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Carignan, P.C., was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Batters was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Boisvenu was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Boniface was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Pratte was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Gold was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Joyal, P.C., was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Jaffer was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Dupuis was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Sinclair was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Joyal, P.C., was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Batters was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Dupuis was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Jaffer was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Pate was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator McIntyre was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator White was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Dagenais was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Boniface was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Sinclair was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Boisvenu was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Pratte was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Lankin, P.C., was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Lankin, P.C., was added to the membership (September 12, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Omidvar was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (September 12, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Omidvar replaced the Honourable Senator Lankin, P.C. (September 12, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Lankin, P.C., replaced the Honourable Senator Omidvar (September 7, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Pratte replaced the Honourable Senator Gold (June 22, 2017).