Sentences with phrase «liberal justice minister»

In his last act as a member of Parliament, former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler introduced a private members» bill that would allow judges to impose a fair and appropriate sentence, notwithstanding mandatory minimums.

An amendment to the code was written into law in 1996 by former Liberal justice minister Allan Rock and was first tested

The Trudeau government that prides itself on not being the Harper Conservatives, base support for Trans Mountain expansion on the Harper government approval process that the now Liberal justice minister pledged to undo in the 2015 election campaign.

Bellemare and other jurists are calling on Quebec Liberal Justice Minister Jean - Marc Fournier to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Not exact matches

The parliamentary secretary to the minister of justice says the Liberal government has no plans currently to legalize or decriminalize «any other drug» than cannabis.

New Democrats pressed Justice Minister Suzanne Anton in Question Period, calling on her and the B.C. Liberal government to bring in a shuttle bus along the Highway of Tears.

He is liberal enough to call Cardinal Ottaviani a «reactionary» but conservative enough to comment that Rocco Buttiglione» rejected as justice minister for the European Union because of his traditional social beliefs» was subject to a «secularist media witch - hunt.»

Where Liberal Democrat ministers can argue for fairness and social justice directly against those who seek to curtail them.

And apparently they don't trust Liberal Democrat justice minister Simon Hughes enough to do it.

It has also been criticised by Liberal Democrat justice minister Simon Hughes.

Delegates included current Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan, former Secretary of State for Wales and former Brexit Minister David Jones, Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald, Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon, Shadow Minister of Women and Equalities Sarah Champion, the SNP's Justice and Home Affairs spokesperson Joanna Cherry QC and the Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, Baroness Sheehan.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg says he is «shocked and saddened» after the former cabinet minister Chris Huhne admitted perverting the course of justice over claims his ex-wife took speeding points for him a decade ago.

But the transparency Liberals crave could be given with one hand only to be taken away with the other, since justice minister Helen Grant hinted in a recent Westminster Hall debate that rejecting FOI requests on cost ground could be made easier through new legislation.

The Tories» Liberal Democrat partners, who apparently saw keen as their sixth cabinet minister during his time a justice secretary, were given an affectionate pat on the head.

Labour's Jack Straw, who served as both home secretary and justice secretary and attempted his own reforms of the Lords when in government, urged the prime minister to consider calling a pre-legislative referendum to avoid a «trainwreck» to Commons business in light of the fact that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were «divided on this issue».

That idea was resisted by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport ministers Jeremy Hunt and Ed Vaizey, and also by several Liberal Democrats, including Nick Clegg, the Justice minister Lord (Tom) McNally, and the Liberal Democrats» culture spokesman Don Foster.

With Justice Cromwell's surprise decision to resign this September, the Federal Liberals promising reform of Supreme Court appointments, and recent media discussion around the political edges of judicial appointments, The Law Society of BC yesterday offered recommendations to Justice Minister Jody Wilson - Raybould promoting four core principles for the judicial appointment process.

The commission that he led had been created by Quebec Premier Jean Charest after the province's former Justice Minister Marc Bellemare alleged that he been forced to name three judges to the bench at the behest of Quebec Liberal Party organizers and fundraisers.

On Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the Liberal approach to criminal justice is to protect public safety while respecting rights.

Former minister of public safety, health and justice in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin and also a former law professor at the University of Alberta, Anne McLellan most recently was appointed chairwoman of the Task Force on the Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis, the panel that submitted recommendations to the federal government on the design of a new system to legalize, strictly regulate and restrict access to cannabis.

He was praised by the Quebec Justice Minister, the Barreau du Québec, as well as the federal NDP and Liberal parties.

Former B.C Crown Jody Wilson - Raybould will serve as Canada's first aboriginal justice minister and attorney general in the new Liberal government.

In the 1960s, Claude Wagner — the father of current Supreme Court justice Richard Wagner — was a judge, then a Quebec politician and cabinet minister, then after losing the Quebec Liberal leadership to Robert Bourassa in 1970, Wagner returned to the bench but then stepped down from the bench again to enter federal politics as a Conservative.

It is also acknowledged that Justice Minister Jody Wilson - Raybould stated, on behalf of the Government of Canada at the Assembly of First Nations Annual General Meeting in Niagara Falls in July 2016, that the Liberal Government policy is to anticipate how Aboriginal and Treaty Rights will eventually be articulated by the Supreme Court of Canada so as to act accordingly, by establishing policies that «fill the section 35 rights box» in advance of slow and expensive Indigenous rights decisions from the Supreme Court of Canada.

In 1947, a joint Senate - Commons Committee on a Bill of Rights was set up, largely in response to a resolution from a UN agency, calling on member countries to consider what we would later call an «entrenched» bill of rights, chaired by Senator Leon M. Gouin (Liberal, De Salaberry), a noted scholar and J.L. Ilsley MP, later to be appointed Minister of Justice.

Family justice minister's statement signals Liberal Democrat party's unease over impact of coalition austerity policies