Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18-19
Chair: The Honourable SERGE JOYAL, P.C.
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Issue No. 61
Third and fourth meetings:
Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to
make consequential amendments to other Acts
- Minutes of Proceedings, May 8, 2019
- Minutes of Proceedings, May 9, 2019
- Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, May 8, 2019
- Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, May 9, 2019
WITNESSES
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime:
Heidi Illingworth, Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime.
Association of Families of Persons Assassinated or Disappeared:
Bruno Serre, President;
Nancy Roy, General Manager.
As an individual:
Annie Saint-Onge.
Pivot Legal Society:
Caitlin Shane, Staff Lawyer (by video conference);
Naomi Moses, Lawyer (by video conference).
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter:
Hilla Kerner, Collective Member (by video conference).
Manitoba Organization for Victims Assistance:
Karen Wiebe, Executive Director (by video conference).
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls:
Marion Buller, Chief Commissioner (by video conference);
Qajaq Robinson, Commissioner.
All-Party Parliamentary Group to End Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking:
The Honourable Senator Dan Christmas, Co-Chair;
Arnold Viersen, Member of Parliament, Co-Chair.
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Evangelical Fellowship of Canada:
Julia Beazley, Director, Public Policy.
Indigenous Bar Association:
Katherine Hensel, Barrister and Solicitor.
Service de Police de Longueuil:
Ghyslain Vallières, Prevention Police Officer, MOBILIS Project (by video conference);
Joëlle Safadi, Psychosocial Coordinator, MOBILIS Project (by video conference).
As an individual:
Fady Mansour, Criminal Lawyer.
Defence Counsel Association of Ottawa:
Michael A. Johnston, Barrister-at-Law.
As individuals:
Don Stuart, Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen's University (by video conference);
David A. Bird, Retired Counsel, Department of Justice Canada.
Aboriginal Legal Services:
Jonathan Rudin, Program Director (by video conference).
As an individual:
Brian R. Pfefferle, Defence Counsel (by video conference).
Barreau du Québec:
Pascal Lévesque, Chair of the Committee on Criminal Law;
Nicolas Le Grand Alary, Lawyer, Secretariat of the Order and Legal Affairs.
As an individual:
Elizabeth Sheehy, Professor Emerita of Law, University of Ottawa.
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, Carignan, P.C., Dalphond, *Day (or Mercer), Dyck, Gold, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare) (or Mitchell), Lankin, P.C., McIntyre, Pratte, Sinclair, *Smith or Martin), *Woo (or Saint-Germain)
* Ex officio members
(Quorum 4)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the orders of the Senate of November 7, 2017 and of November 20, 2018, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator Sinclair replaced the Honourable Senator Miville-Dechêne (May 9, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Miville-Dechêne replaced the Honourable Senator Sinclair (May 8, 2019).