Department of Justice Canada Minister's Transition Book

The briefing document listed below was prepared for the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. Additional material will be added as it becomes available.

Please note the document has been processed under the Access to Information Act and certain information has been withheld from disclosure in accordance with the exemptions and exclusions in the Act.

Table of Contents

• Tab 1: Welcome to Justice
  • Introduction
• Tab 2: Roles and Responsibilities of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
  • Overview
• Tab 3: Support to the Minister of Justice and the Minister's Office
  • Deputy Minister & Associate Deputy Minister's Office
  • Ministerial Secretariat
  • Communications Branch
  • Members of Executive Committee and their Areas of Responsibility
  • Organizational Chart
• Tab 4: Resources
  • Financial and Human Resources
  • Grants and Contributions
• Tab 5: Courts
  • Judicial Appointments
  • Supreme Court of Canada
  • Federal Court of Appeal
  • Federal Court
  • Tax Court of Canada
  • Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada
• Tab 6: Organizations in the Ministerial Portfolio
  • Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
  • Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs
  • Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada
  • Courts Administration Service
  • Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada
  • Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime
  • Special Advisor on Wrongful Conviction
  • Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
  • Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
  • Canadian Human Rights Commission
  • Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
• Tab 7: Key Contacts
  • Provincial-Territorial Justice Relations
  • Justice-Related Organizations
    • Judicial Organizations
    • Legal Profession Organizations
    • Law Enforcement Organizations
• Tab 8: Hot Issues
  • Justice Lead
    • Legal Aid
    • Meng
    • Quebec’s Bill 21
    • Judicial Appointments
    • Conversion Therapy
    • Impaired Driving
  • Shared Lead
    • Medical Assistance in Dying
    • McLellan Report
    • Trans Mountain Expansion Project
    • Carbon Pricing
    • Firearms
    • Online Hate
    • AGC v. The Caring Society and AFN et al.
    • Foreign Fighters
• Tab 9: Identification of Priorities
  • Medical Assistance in Dying
  • Implementation of the McLellan Report
  • Modernization of the Official Languages Act
  • Immigration and Refugee Legal Aid
  • Family Information Liaison Units
• Tab 10: First 60 Days
  • Litigation Overview
  • Reports to be tabled before Parliament (*required within 15 sitting Days)
  • Report of the Quadrennial Commission on Pension Accrual
  • Forward Regulatory Plan
  • 2020 Annual Report and Motion under the Statutes Repeal Act
  • Appointments/Vacancies
  • Upcoming Events
    • Calendar of Events
    • Media Outreach
• Annex 1: List of Foundational Briefings