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Oct 24, 2024 · This rather late preoccupation with the social and material conditions and outcomes of justice (and injustice) remains with us today, and these were elaborated and refined philosophically – amongst others – by John Rawls (e.g., A Theory of Justice, Rawls, Citation 1971) and his critic Jurgen Habermas (Citation 2009). Suffice to say, that this work helped re-direct the question of justice ...
- Limiting Police Powers
- Women's Reproductive Rights
- Recognition of The LGBT Community
- 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 ...
Social justice has a long history in Canada dating back to the nineteenth century. Often tied to the idea of creating a more equitable society, and therefore a "socially just society," many of contemporary Canada's social justice groups and institutions originated with Canada's entry into the industrial world.
Jun 20, 2016 · This article is the fourth in a series on Poverty and Human Rights in Canada.. SUMMARY: This article traces Canada’s legislative progress following the federal government’s ratification of the two Covenants that codified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 40 years ago – the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and ...
Mar 25, 2020 · Published Online March 25, 2020. Last Edited March 25, 2020. Passed in 1988, the Canadian Multiculturalism Act was the first act of its kind in the world. It enshrined into law the federal government’s commitment to promoting and maintaining a diverse, multicultural society (see Multiculturalism). Pierre Trudeau.
Law reform committees also review laws and recommend changes. Lawyers bring questions of law to court to create change. Social action groups seek changes to laws that they consider unfair to members of Canadian society. Industry groups and other stakeholders meet with government decision makers in an effort to present their opinions on the ...
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Mar 25, 2013 · 2013:171 Empirical Studies of Law and Social Change 175. critical legal studies, critical race theory, and clinical theory), the. empirical study of law’s relationship to social activism, its ...
