Crown Asset Allocation Committee

Crown Assets Distribution Study Advisory Committee [ CAD Study Advisory Committee ]

The implication, from the committee's point of view, is that if you specifically exempt the Crown, by name, this must reflect the position that, absent that exemption, the part of the tariff item would indeed apply to the Crown.

The Senate committee at that time had been authorized to examine the interplay between provincial and federal laws in addressing the division of matrimonial property, both personal and real on reserve and, in particular, the enforcement of court decisions; the practice of land allotment on reserve, in particular with respect to custom land allotment; in a case of marriage or common law relationships, the status of spouses and how real property is divided on the breakdown of the relationship; and possible solutions that would balance individual and comm ...[+++]unity interests.

That the papers and evidence received and taken and work accomplished by the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights during its study of Bill S-4, An Act respecting family homes situated on First Nation reserves and matrimonial interests or rights in or to structures and lands situated on those reserves, during the Third Session of the Fortieth Parliament and its special study on the division of on-reserve matrimonial real property, during the First Session of the Thirty-eighth Parliament and the Second Session of the Thirty-seventh Parliament, be referred to the committee for the purposes of its study on Bill S-2, An Act respecting fa ...[+++]mily homes situated on First Nation reserves and matrimonial interests or rights in or to structures and lands situated on those reserves.

2.8 The Committee also wondered whether it was advisable to deal separately with the issue of distribution of jointly-held assets (buildings, furniture and other property rights), by widening the scope rationae personae of this distribution to unmarried couples (which could also have children in common).