Translation of "Contract void ab initio " (English → French) :

marriage void ab initio

(Return tabled) Question No. 448 Hon. Stéphane Dion: With regard to judicial appointments from the province of Quebec: (a) what steps is the government taking to ensure Quebec has full representation on the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC); (b) by when will a Justice to replace Justice Fish assume his or her seat on the SCC and by what process will this vacancy be filled; (c) in what ways is the decision in Reference re Supreme Court Act, ss. 5 and 6 being studied and analyzed by the government, and what impact is it expected to have on future judicial appointments from Quebec; (d) will the government seek constitutional amendment to allow for the appointment of judges from the federal courts to the Quebec seats on the SCC and, if so, how d ...[+++]oes the government plan to proceed; (e) does the government anticipate that the decision in Reference re Supreme Court Act, ss. 5 and 6 will have any impact on its ability to fill vacancies from Quebec in the federal courts and, if so, how; (f) in what ways will the government seek (i) to ensure civil law expertise and the representation of Quebec’s legal traditions and social values on the Court, (ii) to enhance the confidence of Quebec in the Court in the context of future appointments; (g) since the decision in Reference re Supreme Court Act, ss. 5 and 6, what discussions or meetings on judicial appointments have occurred with the Government of Quebec and the Barreau du Quebec; (h) in what ways has the question in (e) been studied or will be studied, if any; (i) in what ways has the pool of eligible persons for appointment to Quebec seats on the SCC been defined and identified, broken down by (i) gender, (ii), Aboriginal status, (iii) visible minority status; (j) what qualifications and merit criteria have been identified as necessary and desirable for an appointment to a Quebec seat on the SCC; (k) what steps have been undertaken to identify potential successors to Justice Lebel upon his anticipated retirement from the ...

This procedural exclusion, this procedural absence of the substantive, actual recommended rule changes from this report, renders the report defective, irregular, out of order and even void, ab initio.

Not being legally married to each other, the Joint Applicants are not “spouses” within the meaning of the Divorce Act, and the Court has no jurisdiction to grant them a divorce as it is not legally possible to end a marriage that was void ab initio [from the outset].17

Mr. David McGuinty: I'm raising it, Mr. Chair, because I'm just trying to get to whether or not, in fact, this motion is void ab initio, as they say, because it may not even be that the Auditor General's actually mandated to conduct what's called a performance audit, because a performance audit is a very different question.