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I apologize if I'm becoming emotional, but as a law professor, it's very frustrating to think that those who have the power to change the code in a constructive way ignore the reams of paper that are on the shelf in the Law Reform Commission of Canada from the 1980s to address real problems with this document that academics and experts have been studying for years and pronouncing about in their scholarship and in the Law Reform Commission reports.

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This government did not like the law with respect to the Law Reform Commission of Canada, so it just got rid of the funding which, in effect, disestablishes the Law Reform Commission of Canada without having to go through the little technicality of passing a new law.

In its 1987 report entitled Recodifying Criminal Law, the Law Reform Commission of Canada offered two models for reforming the law on corporate criminal liability (19) The first model would have retained the identification approach to corporate criminal liability with respect to offences of intent or recklessness; however, the Commission would have expanded the category of personnel whose conduct could trigger the corporation’s liability to include all employees who are “identifiable as persons with authority over the formulation or implementation of corporate policy,” provided that they were acting within the scope of their authority ( ...[+++]i.e., acting at least partially on behalf of the corporation and not in fraud of it).

When the law reform commission was eliminated there was a cry from many parts of the country, from groups that had benefited, who had been able to persuade the law reform commission that new advances were required and changes were required in the law and who saw that come to fruition in legislation.

It was funded by the European Commission's AGIS programme with the support of the Irish Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Netherlands Centre for International Police Co-operation.