Public Safety, Defence, and Immigration Portfolio Evaluation

Access to required support and tools In addition to the assistance they receive from the Public Law Sector, PSDI legal counsel have access to a number of tools and processes that support the quality of their work and contribute to the consistency in the opinions provided on behalf of the Department of Justice Canada. [...] The significant amendments made to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the integration of the Passport Office within CIC, the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights initiative, and more recently, the tabling of Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 201517, were some of the examples provided. [...] Finally, a number of commissions of inquiry, such as the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182, the Arar Inquiry, and the Iacobucci Inquiry, have had a significant impact on the need for legal support during both their proceedings and the required follow-up. [...] Also noted in the description of the Portfolio, the ADAG Office includes two teams (the NLCT and the NSLT) that are expected to support the coordination and monitoring of services offered to the Portfolio’s client departments and agencies. [...] In addition, to support the ongoing monitoring of resource allocation within the Portfolio, the Office of Business Management provides ongoing reporting, largely based on iCase29 and financial data, addressing a number of indicators, such as the number of files managed by the Portfolio (active, opened, and closed), the distribution of hours dedicated to the types of files (advisory, litigation, le