Traduction de «Bureau de Madame le juge principal » (Français → Anglais) :

26. Believes that assuming Parliament's increased legislative responsibilities is an ongoing process and requires full assistance to Members to fulfil their legislative work; welcomes, in this context, the decision of the Bureau of 6 May 2009 aimed at enhancing direct assistance to Members during their legislative work, in particular during the initial drafting stage; considers that attention must now also be turned to the later stages of the legislative procedures and deems it essential that Members have access to correct texts in all official languages, in accordance with the principles ...[+++] of multilingualism and in accordance with the aims of the Union's Better Law-making policy, in order to enhance transparency and the democratic legitimacy of Parliament's positions in legislative procedures; 27.

In the last day or two, Senator Beaudoin may have noticed, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin referred to the living tree doctrine as applying to the Charter.

– (FR) Madam President, President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, when giving our opinion, according to the recommendations of Mr Obiols, with regard to the proposal for an association agreement with the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, our Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, through the intermediary of its Chairman, Mr Brok, and with the agreement of its bureau, considered it necessary to open the debate that has brought us here today and which will be followed, tomorrow, by the adoption of a re ...[+++]solution that I hope will be voted for by a very large majority of this House.

Vacancies are gradually being filled with young judges, attorneys and clerical staff but a further overall increase in the number of staff is planned in principle.

INQUIRIES The Honourable Senator Cools called the attention of the Senate:(a) to the letter to the editor in the National Post, March 13, 1999, entitled " Fair Hearing" , written by British Columbia Chief Justice Allan McEachern, the Chairperson of the Canadian Judicial Council's Judicial Conduct Committee, responding to the March 10, 1999 National Post's editorial " Hardly Impartial" about Mr. Justice John Wesley McClung, Madame Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, and the Canadian Judicial Council; (b) to the continuing public controversy about Alberta Court of Appeal Justice John Wesley McClung, and Supreme Court of Canada Justice Claire ...[+++]L'Heureux-Dubé, and the media reports of same; (c) to the interview and the comments of Chief Justice Allan McEachern as reported in the Lawyers Weekly February 26, 1999 article " Judges Must be Cyber-Warriors" ; (d) to the matter of justices' public statements in the media; and (e) to the concept and principles of judicial independence and to Parliament's rights in these matters.

(e) to Madame Justice McLachlin's diligence in her dutiful endeavours as Chief Justice, and the well-established principle that all judicial officers and lawyers have a duty, if having the knowledge, to take action to prevent breaches of the law and legal wrongs and sins.