departmental legal counsel [ departmental legal adviser | departmental legal advisor ]

general counsel

counsel | legal counsel

lawyer (US) = attorney-at-law (US) | solicitor + barrister

corporate lawyer | legal adviser

corporation lawyer [ corporate lawyer | corporate counsel ]

attorney (US)

in-house lawyer

Witnesses: From the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development: Warren Johnson, Assistant Deputy Minister, Lands and Trust Services; Paul Salembier, Senior Counsel; Lucie Angers, Senior Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Justice Canada; Catherine MacLean, Counsel, Lands and Trusts, Socio-Economic Policy and Programs and Corporate Services, Justice Canada.

Mr. Al Broughton (Senior Counsel, Lands, Trust and Corporate Services, Indian and Northern Affairs, Legal Services Branch, Department of Justice Canada): Maybe I'll just start by noting that as a lawyer with the Department of Justice Canada I'm not really capable of providing legal advice to you, but where there's something clearer that can be said, I'd certainly be happy to provide that information.

(Return tabled) Question No. 334 Hon. Irwin Cotler: With regard to bijuralism and harmonization: (a) what measures are in place to ensure legislative bijuralism across all departments; (b) since the adoption of the “Policy on Legislative Bijuralism”, how has the Department of Justice (i) ensured that all legal counsel in the Department are made aware of the requirements of legislative bijuralism in order for them to be able to take it into account when advising client departments on legislative reforms, (ii) enhanced the capacity of the Legislative Services Branch to draft bijural legislative texts, (iii) undertook, in drafting both ver ...[+++]sions of every bill and proposed regulation that touches on provincial or territorial private law, to take care to reflect the terminology, concepts, notions and institutions of both of Canada’s private law systems; (c) since the adoption of the “Policy for Applying the Civil Code of Quebec to Federal Government Activities”, what measures are in place to ensure (i) changes to Quebec’s Civil Code are known and monitored by the government, (ii) assessment of federal legislation relative to changes to Quebec’s Civil Code, (iii) federal legislation is introduced to reflect, where necessary, changes to the Civil Code of Quebec; (d) with respect to the “Index of Bijuralism and Harmonization Caselaw” found online and indicating its most recent update was June 12, 2012, (i) how often is this page updated, (ii) given that some cases thereupon are from 2013, when was this page last updated, (iii) whose responsibility is it to update this page, (iv) what cases are currently being monitored for potential addition to this page; (e) with respect to cases involving bijuralism and harmonization, (i) in what ways are these made known to the Department, (ii) whose responsibility it is to monitor these cases, (iii), what role does the Federal government play in these cases if a party, (iv) what role does the government play if not a party, (v) who m ...

They are Mary Campbell, the acting director general from the portion of the ministry she represents; Normand Payette, the acting director from a version of that portion of the ministry—I won't bother to read the description in our agenda; and Michel Laprade, who is senior counsel, legal services, from CSC.