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Feb 29, 2024 · Section 13 is being reborn as part of the Liberal’s online harms bill. Here's how the hate speech law was killed last time in Canada’s first online culture war. Joseph Brean. Published Feb 29 ...
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- Limiting Police Powers
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- Linguistic Rights For Francophones Outside Quebec
- Strengthened Aboriginal Rights
- Judicial Activism
One of the more significant changes over the past 30 years has been court-enforced legal safeguards and accountability for policing, Des Rosiers observes. There were a number of charter cases that codified these changes, including the Oakes case in 1986 in which the Supreme Court overturned a law that had required the accused to disprove a presumpt...
The key decision in this instance was the 1988 Morgentaler case, in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Criminal Code sections on abortion were unconstitutional. By the time of that ruling there was only one woman on the Supreme Court — Bertha Wilson, the first woman to be appointed. Siding with the majority, "she anchors her decision in what pr...
Through a series of decisions the courts have recognized rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Canadians, despite the fact that sexual orientation is not specifically mentioned in the charter itself. In the 1998 Vriend decision, the court read sexual orientation into Alberta's human rights legislation, confirming earlier decisions prohib...
Through a series of provincial and Supreme Court decisions, the charter gave francophones outside Quebec access to French schools, school boards and even hospitals. Canada now has a generation called "section 23 kids" who were educated in these schools, where numbers warranted. Des Rosiers considers those decisions to have been among the most impor...
The charter's recognition of Aboriginal Peoples "sent a very important message," Renée Dupuis, the former chief commissioner of the Indian Specific Claims Commission, told CBC News last year. The other amendment to the Charter, to section 25, was on aboriginal land claims. The charter has imposed on governments a duty to consult aboriginal peoples ...
For Rainer Knopff, the biggest change, institutionally, is that the charter "amounts to a significant transfer of policy making to the courts," especially in an area that could be described as "morality issues." "The charter has meant that the courts have a major influence on those things in a way they wouldn't have previously," he says. McPhedran ...
Mar 25, 2020 · Canada was the first country in the world to pass a national multiculturalism law. At the time, critics of the new law said that it ignored many of the Standing Committee’s recommendations, including re-establishing a Ministry of Multiculturalism.
Jun 24, 2021 · The Trudeau government is proposing legal changes intended to curb online hate speech and make it easier for the victims of hate speech to launch complaints. The proposed Bill C-36 includes an...
Apr 29, 2021 · After more than 25 years of Canadian governments pursuing a hands-off approach to the online world, the government of Justin Trudeau is now pushing Bill C-10, a law that would see...
Apr 9, 2024 · A bill introduced by the Canadian government to safeguard against online harms has stirred opposition from free speech advocates.
Feb 26, 2024 · The federal government is introducing its long-awaited online harms legislation today, after its last attempt to tackle online hate died when the 2021 federal election was called.
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