ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS — Customs Act—Preclearance Act, 2016

Chair of the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence, presented the following report:

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

The Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence has the honour to present its

THIRD REPORT

Your committee, to which was referred Bill S-7, An Act to amend the Customs Act and the Preclearance Act, 2016, has, in obedience to the order of reference of May 11, 2022, examined the said bill and now reports the same with the following amendments:

1.Clause 1, page 1: Replace lines 12 and 13 with the following:

“about to be exported, has had its network connectivity disabled and is in the custody or possession of a person if the officer has reasonable grounds to suspect”.

2.Clause 2, page 2: Add the following after line 14:

“(a.01) respecting measures to be taken by an officer if a person asserts that a document to be examined under subsection 99.01(1) is subject to a privilege under the law of evidence, solicitor-client privilege or the professional secrecy of advocates and notaries, or litigation privilege;”.

3.Clause 9, page 5: Replace lines 3 and 4 with the following:

“bound for the United States and that has its network connectivity disabled if the preclearance officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that”.

4.Clause 12, page 6:

(a)Replace line 8 with the following:

“a traveller bound for the United States, that has its network connectivity disabled and that is to be”;

(b)replace lines 10 and 11 with the following:

“6(2)(a) if the preclearance officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that”.

5.Clause 16, page 7: Add the following after line 22:

“(c.2) respecting measures to be taken by a preclearance officer if a person asserts that a document to be examined, searched or detained under section 20.1 or 28.1 is subject to a privilege under the law of evidence, solicitor-client privilege or the professional secrecy of advocates and notaries, or litigation privilege;”.

Respectfully submitted,

TONY DEAN

Chair