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 29, 2019
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Issue No. 63
First and second (final) meetings:
Subject matter of those elements contained in Division 17 of Part 4, and in Subdivisions B, C and D of
Division 2 of Part 4 of Bill C-97, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in
Parliament on March 19, 2019 and other measures
Seventh and eighth (final) 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
INCLUDING:
THE THIRTY-FIRST REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(The subject matter of those elements
contained in Division 17 of Part 4, and in Subdivisions B, C and D of Division 2 of Part 4 of Bill C-97)
THE THIRTY-SECOND REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Bill C-75)
- Order of Reference
- Minutes of Proceedings, May 29, 2019 (Afternoon meeting)
- Minutes of Proceedings, May 29, 2019 (Evening meeting)
- Minutes of Proceedings, May 30, 2019 (Morning meeting)
- Minutes of Proceedings, May 30, 2019 (Afternoon meeting)
- Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, May 29, 2019 (Afternoon meeting)
- Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, May 29, 2019 (Evening meeting)
- Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, May 30, 2019 (Morning meeting)
- Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, May 30, 2019 (Afternoon meeting)
- Thirty-first Report of the Committee
- Thirty-second Report of the Committee
APPEARING
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
The Honourable David Lametti, P.C., M.P., Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.
WITNESSES
Wednesday, May 29, 2019 (Afternoon meeting)
Department of Justice Canada:
Nathalie G. Drouin, Deputy Minister.
Department of Finance Canada:
Isabelle Jacques, Assistant Deputy Minister.
Wednesday, May 29, 2019 (Evening meeting)
Department of Justice Canada:
Carole Morency, Director General and Senior General Counsel;
Shannon Davis-Ermuth, Senior Counsel;
Matthias Villetorte, Senior Counsel and Team Lead.
Thursday, May 30, 2019 (Morning meeting)
Department of Justice Canada:
Carole Morency, Director General and Senior General Counsel;
Shannon Davis-Ermuth, Senior Counsel.
Thursday, May 30, 2019 (Afternoon meeting)
Department of Justice Canada:
Paul Saint-Denis, Senior Counsel;
Adèle Berthiaume, Counsel.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada:
Fraser Valentine, Director General, Refugee Affairs;
André Baril, Senior Director, Refugee Affairs.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police:
Eric Slinn, Assistant Commissioner, Federal Policing Criminal Operations;
Mark Flynn, Superintendent, Director General, Financial Crime and Cybercrime, Federal Policing Criminal Operations.
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada:
Luc Beaudry, Assistant Director, Collaboration, Development and Research;
Joane Leroux, Assistant Director, Regional Operations;
Dan Lambert, Assistant Director, Intelligence 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., Dalphond, *Day (or Mercer), Dyck, Frum, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare) (or Mitchell), Kutcher, Lankin, P.C., McIntyre, Moodie, Pate, *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 Frum replaced the Honourable Senator MacDonald (May 30, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Pate replaced the Honourable Senator Dupuis (May 30, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Moodie replaced the Honourable Senator Pratte (May 30, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Boniface replaced the Honourable Senator Sinclair (May 30, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Kutcher replaced the Honourable Senator Gold (May 30, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Sinclair replaced the Honourable Senator Boniface (May 30, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Boniface replaced the Honourable Senator Sinclair (May 30, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Batters replaced the Honourable Senator Doyle (May 29, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Gold replaced the Honourable Senator Kutcher (May 29, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Pratte replaced the Honourable Senator Pate (May 29, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Doyle replaced the Honourable Senator Batters (May 29, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Pate replaced the Honourable Senator Pratte (May 29, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Kutcher replaced the Honourable Senator Gold (May 28, 2019).
The Honourable Senator MacDonald replaced the Honourable Senator Boisvenu (May 27, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Lankin, P.C., replaced the Honourable Senator Miville-Dechêne (May 17, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Carignan, P.C., replaced the Honourable Senator Housakos (May 16, 2019).