Translation of "JACS " (English → French) :

An Interdepartmental Regional and National Forum: A Proposal to Extend the JAC Model beyond June 22, 1998

shirt jacket [ shirt-style jacket | shirt-jac ]

Joint Adjustment Committee process [ JAC process ]

Joint Advisory Council | JAC [Abbr.]

Armaments Cooperation Organisation | Joint Armaments Cooperation Structure | JACS [Abbr.] | OCCAR [Abbr.]

Joint Advisory Committee | JAC [Abbr.]

So with regards to the absence of legislation or regulation, are you recommending that this government or this committee look at the idea and possibly make a recommendation that there should be a piece of legislation that actually creates the JACs, clearly explains and describes the composition and the process of appointment of members to the JACs and the qualifications required, whether for laypersons or lawyers—and I won't talk about the judges, because in most of the provinces it is the chief justice of the province or the provincial courts who actually appoints the person, or the provincial chief justice who sits on the provincial eq ...[+++]uivalent of the JACs—and also provide, at least in a general way, if not necessarily in a very detailed way, the criteria that the JACs must take into consideration, in terms of evaluating the prospective candidates and determining whether or not they meet the merit?

Despite the fact that the administration of candidate applications and the operation of the JACs have been carried out by the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs continuously since 1988, structural changes to the JACs themselves have been a fairly constant feature of the JAC process.

I think there's a case to be made that this gerrymandering of the judicial advisory committees—the JACs, let's call them—is done to give the new government an opportunity to stack the committees, the JACs, and to therefore influence the recommendation process unduly, in a way not seen during the time of the Liberal government, and certainly not even during the time of a previous Conservative government in which you served, namely the Mulroney government.

I am confident that the 2006 JACs will continue to conduct their examination and assessment of candidates with the same expertise, diligence, and conscience as prior JACs, and will forward recommendations that will permit me to make judicial appointments in a timely fashion, from among candidates of merit and legal excellence.