Past Session:

Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs

First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18

Chair: The Honourable SERGE JOYAL, P.C.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Issue No. 39

Third and fourth meetings:
Subject matter of those elements contained in Parts 1, 2, 8, 9 and 14 of Bill C-45, An Act respecting cannabis and to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Criminal Code and other Acts

APPEARING

The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, P.C., M.P., Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

WITNESSES

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Department of Justice Canada:

Carole Morency, Director General and Senior General Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section.

Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction:

Rebecca Jesseman, Policy Director.

As an individual:

Serge Brochu, Scientific Director, University Institute on Addictions, Professor Emeritus, University of Montreal.

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health:

Benedikt Fischer, Senior Scientist, Institute for Mental Health Policy Research.

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Criminal Lawyers' Association:

Michael Spratt, Member, Lawyer, Abergel Goldstein and Partners;

Ayesha Kumararatne, Barrister and Solicitor, Affiliate Counsel to the Federal Practice Group.

Canadian Council of Criminal Defence Lawyers:

Eric Neubauer, Representative.

As an individual:

Mark Walters, Professor of Law, McGill University.

Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police:

Chief Mario Harel, President;

Deputy Chief Mike Serr, Co-Chair, Drug Advisory Committee (by video conference).

Canadian Police Association:

Tom Stamatakis, President.

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), Eaton, Gold, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare), (or Mitchell), Jaffer, McIntyre, Pratte, Sinclair, *Smith (or Martin), *Woo (or Saint-Germain)

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Legal and Constitutional Affairs