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Ads by Google      Embassy Washington The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees some of the same rights, called "fundamental freedoms," that are protected in the U.S. Bill of Rights: freedom of conscience and religion; freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press; freedom of peaceful assembly; and freedom of association. It is made up of acts of the British and Canadian Parliaments, as well as legislation, judicial decisions and agreements between the federal and provincial governments. Responsible government, for example, in which the Cabinet is collectively responsible to the elected House of Commons and must resign if it loses a vote of confidence, is a fundamental, but unwritten, element of Canadian parliamentary democracy at the federal and provincial levels. http://www.canadianembassy.org/government/constitution-en.asp      The Federal Parliament and the Protection of Human Rights (Research Paper 20 1998-99) While the Parliament has enacted important legislation such as the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cwlth), and its committees, such as the Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, determine whether bills trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties, no statute lists the core rights attached to Australian citizenship. A joint standing committee of the Federal Parliament, or standing committees of both the Senate and the House of Representatives, might be created to examine legislation and delegated instruments for compliance with a statutory Bill of Rights or, in the absence of such a Bill, with an agreed list of fundamental rights. In 1973 Senator Lionel Murphy, as Attorney-General in the Whitlam Labor Government, introduced the Human Rights Bill 1973 (Cwlth) into the Federal Parliament. http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/1998-99/99rp20.htm      The London Fog: February 15, 2004 Kempling appealed the BCCT ruling on the grounds that it violated his rights to freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression in Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Bill 8 was introduced in the legislature last November on the anniversary of the release of former Saskat-chewan premier Roy Romanow's report on the future of medicare in Canada. Bill 8, also called the Commitment to the Future of Medicare Act, has a number of flaws the Ministry of Health plans to fix with a series of amendments, Health Minister George Smitherman said yesterday. http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2004_02_15_thelondonfog_archive.html      QueerCaucus.ca - Ontario NDP LGBT Committee As MPs march toward the first vote on the same-sex marriage bill, Prime Minister Paul Martin is being accused of "rank hypocrisy" by the NDP after his government quietly requested an appeal to the Supreme Court when it lost a case involving gay rights and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But as Bill Siksay, the NDP MP for Burnaby-Douglas, prepares to draw up a private member's bill on trans rights, getting trans people explicit protection in the Canadian Human Rights Act has become the focus. NDP MP Bill Siksay (Burnaby-Douglas) introduced a bill in the House of Commons today that would include gender identity or gender expression as a prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act. http://www.web.net/~queercaucus/news   (369 words)      Canadian Parliament Gay ‘MarriageÂ’ Debate Begins – “Same-Sex Marriage is Not a Human Right” For the Liberals, the strategy is to manipulate Canadians to believe that, rather than the preservation or weakening of marriage and family, the issue is about rights and their sacred Charter, which has allowed their appointed judges to invent rights, change laws and oppress opponents of Liberal Party ideology. Martin stated, "I believe in and I will fight for the Charter of Rights" and, re-inforcing the power given judges to change and make laws, he said, "The charter is a living document. that the Supreme Court of Canada would honour such a decision by Parliament." Harper followed through on his comments by proposing an amendment that impossibly tried to both defend marriage and satisfy those who would destroy marriage. http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05021701.html   (369 words)      Bahamas Issues Bahamian Web Community - View Single Post - More on Canada's "Silencing the Truth" Kempling appealed his suspension to the B.C. Supreme Court on the grounds that the suspension violates the Canadian Charter of Rights protections of freedom of expression and religion. The bill was sponsored by Svend Robinson, who was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1979. Incredulously, the statute would seem to protect members of parliament who voted for the bill from being opposed for reelection on the basis of the morality of the law they helped pass! http://www.bahamasissues.com/showpost.php?p=6274&postcount=3   (369 words)      GayLawNet - GayLawNews by Subject - Partners / Marriage - January-March 2001 Bill 202, or the Marriage Amendment Act, defines marriage to be exclusively "between a man and a woman," and further invokes the notwithstanding clause to ensure the bill continues to hold force in the face of any future challenge under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The package of bills, authored by Democratic Assembly members Sheila Kuehl, Darrell Steinberg and Gloria Romero, would offer domestic partners who are registered with the California Secretary of State's office certain legal rights currently afforded married couples. The votes for all three bills passed by a 9-3 vote, with Republican Assembly members Robert Pacheco of Walnut, George House of Hughson and Dick Ackerman of Fullerton casting the "No" votes. http://www.gaylawnet.com/news/2000/pa000103.htm   (7347 words)      The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline The Canadian provinces of Ontario and British Columbia legalized same-sex marriage in 2003, numerous other provinces followed suit in 2004, and on June 29, 2005, the Canadian parliament passed a bill legalizing gay marriage throughout the country. The Massachusetts Chief Justice concluded that to “deny the protections, benefits, and obligations conferred by civil marriage&; to gay couples was unconstitutional because it denied “the dignity and equality of all individuals” and made them “second-class citizens.” Strong opposition followed the ruling. President Clinton's original intention to revoke the prohibition against gays in the military was met with stiff opposition; this compromise, which has led to the discharge of thousands of men and women in the armed forces, was the result. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0761909.html   (699 words)      Edited Hansard * Table of Contents * Number 120 (Official Version) The petitioners are asking that the rights of Canadians to be free to share their religious beliefs without fear of prosecution be recognized by Parliament. The petitioners therefore call upon Parliament to protect the rights of Canadians and not make the Bible a piece of hate literature so that Canadians can be free to share their religious beliefs without fear of prosecution. The petitioners are concerned about Bill C-250 which proposes a change under section 318 and section 319 of the Criminal Code which could lead to individuals being unable to exercise their religious freedom as protected under the Charter of Rights of Freedoms, and to express their moral and religious doctrines without fear of criminal prosecutions. http://www.parl.gc.ca/37/2/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/120_2003-09-16/HAN120-E.htm   (1181 words)      Opinionated Lesbian : Holy political hot stuff, Batman Speaker, I am proud to introduce this morning a private member's bill that would add protections for transsexual and transgendered Canadians to the Canadian Human Rights Act by adding 'gender identity or expression' to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination in the act. Bill Siksay (Burnaby - Douglas, NDP) moved for leave to introduce Bill C-392, an act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act (gender identity). This bill would ensure explicit protections for trans-identified Canadians in areas of federal jurisdiction." http://www.opinionatedlesbian.com/bulletin/opinionatedlesbian/archive/2005/05/17/576.aspx   (212 words)      Encyclopedia4U - Quebec - Encyclopedia Article This section of the law was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, see: Ford v. The Charter is a fundamental law making French the sole official language of Quebec while guaranteeing the rights of the English-speaking community. The first enactment of Bill 101 became controversial for its regulations on commercial signs. http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/q/quebec.html   (212 words)      CBC News Indepth: Same Sex Rights On June 3, 1993, the Senate passes Bill S-15, another attempt at adding "sexual orientation" to the Canadian Human Rights Act, but the bill doesn't make it to the House of Commons because Parliament is dissolved for the 1993 federal election. Federal Justice Minister Kim Campbell responds to the decision by announcing the government would take the necessary steps to include sexual orientation in the Canadian Human Rights Act. Two men, a Canadian Forces sergeant and a warrant officer, are married in the chapel at CFB Greenwood, N.S., in the military's first gay wedding. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/samesexrights/timeline_canada.html   (4287 words)      Adoption News Briefs (Family Helper for adoption) The Federal Court had said that distinctions based on "adoptive parentage" violate the equality rights provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. There were hopes that federal Bill C-18, the Citizenship Bill, could become law in the fall of 2003, but it died at the end of the Second Session, Nov. 12, 2003. The new law would benefit Canadians who adopt abroad while living outside Canada, since they currently cannot apply for citizenship for their children (because to apply for citizenship a child must be a permanent resident in Canada). http://www.familyhelper.net/news.html   (7546 words)      Governor-General of New Zealand - Speeches When the Human Rights Committee of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) upheld her claim that this was gender-discriminatory law, the Canadian government repealed it. Policy makers are required to consider not only whether their proposal would fail a vetting, but hopefully are reminded of the positive goals and intentions of the Bill of Rights. He goes on to discuss the case of Sandra Lovelace, a Maliseet Indian from New Brunswick, who under Indian customary law, incorporated into Canadian law, lost her right to live on tribal land when she 'married out' of the tribe. http://www.gg.govt.nz/utilities/printspeech.asp?ID=222   (7546 words)      LISNews.com Bill Before Canadian Parliament Further Restricts Speech As the CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees) site points out, if the Senate doesn't pass this before the federal election in Canada is called, the bill will die. 'Canada is a pleasantly authoritarian country,' Alan Borovoy, general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said a few years ago. Decisions on both are not expected before spring, but speculation is that Al-Jazeera will soon be legal in Canada, much to the disappointment of the Canadian Jewish Congress. http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=04/04/12/1853245&tid=   (7546 words)      "The Canadian Constitution, A History Lesson." It contained a venerable list of rights to which, these days, we can lay real claim, including: The people can only be taxed by a bill passed through the parliament of the people (Art. Shortly after outright rebellion (1837-8), Lord Durham was sent out and in time communicated his report to the British parliament, recommending to it that "no time should be lost in proposing to Parliament a bill for restoring the union of the Canadas under one legislature, and reconstructing them as one province." In the result the The Magna Carta, however, was but a list: the kings and the nobles within a year or two of 1215 returned to their old ways of continual fighting amongst themselves and hundreds of years were yet to pass before any real progress was to made in respect to the rights of the people. http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/BluePete/ConstitutionHistory.htm   (3230 words)      Ignorance of Canadian Constitution too common "The Constitution of Canada also comprises other legislative documents and decrees," states the Canadian Encyclopedia, "including the British Magna Carta (1215), Bill of Rights (1689), Petition of Right (1629) and Act of Settlement (1701)." But the Charter is as distinct from the Canadian Bill of Rights enacted in 1960 under the Diefenbaker government (and overridden by the Trudeau government during the FLQ crisis) as it is from the Canadian Human Rights Act and Commission created in 1977. The teens declaring they do indeed know about Pierre Trudeau (Letters, Oct. 26) also revealed their ignorance of the Canadian Constitution. http://www.opinion-pages.org/thinksideways/canada-act.htm   (3230 words)      Thomson Nelson - Political Science -Canadian Politics on the Web/Civil Rights in Canada Parliament passed the Bill of Rights in 1960, as one means of protecting Canadians from government excesses. The Canadian Department of Justice so provides a Digest of the Supreme Court's Charter of Rights decisions which provides brief summaries of judicial decisions relevant to each section of the Charter involved.  You will find links to the full text of the Supreme Court of Canada's decisions on Charter issues. http://polisci.nelson.com/rights.html   (1153 words)      Members of the 38th Canadian Parliament and same-...: Information From Answers.com West Nova, NS March 21st: 2nd reading of the bill, Parliamentary Secretary of Health, Thibault said he has a responsibility to uphold the Charter of Rights and Freedoms: that every Canadian is equal before the law. Calgary&, AB April 04th: While C-38 was in 2nd reading, Diane said that that the majority of Canadians are against and that changing the defintion would change the effectivness of marriage as the underpinning of society. This article lists the members of the 38th Parliament of Canada and their publicly-stated intentions about voting on Bill C-38, which would amend the Marriage Act of Canada to recognize same-sex marriage (SSM). http://answers.com/topic/members-of-the-38th-canadian-parliament-and-same-...   (4372 words)      Canadian Politics Department of Justice - Canadian Human Rights Commission and Laws and Regulations An Act respecting the exercise of the fundamental rights and prerogatives of the Québec people and the Québec State (Bill 99, Quebec) Aboriginal Rights Sections in the Constitution Act, 1982 http://www.joson.com/index-ref/canpol.html   (4372 words)      babble: Gender Identity and gender expression should be protected by Human Rights Act: Siksay This Bill is essential as it addresses the lack of protections against discrimination and harassment provided for Transsexual and Transgender people in the Canadian Human Rights Act. OTTAWA –NDP MP Bill Siksay (Burnaby-Douglas) introduced a bill in the House of Commons today that would include gender identity or gender expression as a prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act. It's not possible to proceed through the courts, as was done with sexual orientation and Alberta, because federal and provincial human rights commissions already accept and act on cases of discrimination on these grounds. http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=24&t=000671&p=   (6566 words)      Canadian Bill of Rights: Information From Answers.com The Canadian Bill of Rights is a federal statute enacted in 1960 (not to be confused with the Canadian Human Rights Act of 1977). The Canadian Bill of Rights applies only to federal jurisdiction and does not apply to provincial legislation, it is said to be a "quasi-constitutional" document: See Winnipeg School Division No.1 v. Its main effect was upon the hiring practices of the Federal government. http://www.answers.com/topic/canadian-bill-of-rights?hl=bill&hl=rights   (179 words)      It's 1972 all over again (Canadian Election) Along with federalism, checks and balances and the Bill of Rights competitive elections are part of the constitutional package designed to protect our liberties, and eliminating them from the mix bodes ill for the health of our republic in the long term. Michael Bliss, the dean of Canadian political historians, likened the Liberal launch to Sir John A. Macdonald's 1891 campaign, the first national campaign to demonize America in an effort to scare voters away from one party or the other. In what would be his final campaign, Canada's first prime minister accused his Liberal opponents of treason for pledging a free-trade treaty with the United States. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1142793/posts   (179 words)      It's 1972 all over again (Canadian Election) Along with federalism, checks and balances and the Bill of Rights competitive elections are part of the constitutional package designed to protect our liberties, and eliminating them from the mix bodes ill for the health of our republic in the long term. Michael Bliss, the dean of Canadian political historians, likened the Liberal launch to Sir John A. Macdonald's 1891 campaign, the first national campaign to demonize America in an effort to scare voters away from one party or the other. In what would be his final campaign, Canada's first prime minister accused his Liberal opponents of treason for pledging a free-trade treaty with the United States. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1142793/posts   (3187 words)      2003 in gay rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Canadian politician Ted Nebbeling marries his partner of 32 years in what is believed to be the first same-sex marriage of a cabinet minister. October 29 - A Human Rights Campaign study shows 60 percent of American adoption agencies accept applications from gay and lesbian couples and 40 percent claim to have placed children in homes headed by same-sex couples. November 20 - United States Congress passes a resolution condemning all violations of internationally-recognized human rights norms based on the real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity of an individual. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_in_gay_rights   (775 words)      Canadian Politics - Government Scandals & Boondoggles Canada eh! In its 1986 Singh ruling, the Supreme Court affirmed that the rights protected by the Bill of Rights continue in force even if they are not explicitly mentioned in the Charter—which property is not. This right is imported into Canadian law by the preamble to the BNA Act (1867) and by section 26 of the Charter. However, the Supreme Court has established that it may confer judicially enforceable constitutional protection on “unwritten constitutional principles” that are fundamental to CanadiansÂ’ historical sense of justice. http://www.lufa.ca/news/news_item.asp?NewsID=254   (775 words)      Advocate, The: Throwing the backlash off balance - last word - gay rights movement trends Just two weeks before the Supreme Court's pronouncement, a Canadian court declared that country's ban on gay marriage to be unconstitutional Then the Vatican poured more gasoline on the gay-straight debate by denouncing gay marriage as "deviant," "evil," and "gravely immoral"--words that are surely more appropriate to the Vatican's own coddling of its pedophile priests. And it's true that the day of the Supreme Court's decision was the most hopeful moment since Bill Clinton was elected president after promising to lift an idiotic ban on lesbians and gays serving openly in the military. As long as the Republican right controls Congress and the White House, all of our political victories will always be in jeopardy. http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1589/2003_Oct_14/110809193/p1/article.jhtml   (639 words)      LifeSite Special Report - Hansard Record of April 1st Canadian Senate debate on Bill C-250 David Tkachuk: Honourable senators, I rise to speak to Senator St. Germain's amendment because, although his amendment improves the consistency of the Criminal Code in meeting the already established protection under the Charter, the Constitution, and the 1976 Human Rights Act, I should like to add that he did not go far enough. Canadians believe it is fundamentally inappropriate to pass legislation that can be used to intimidate, accuse or harass citizens intent on defending their rights to advocate moral or religious issues related thereto in the public square. Senator Kinsella: As this is the second day of debate at third reading stage of this bill, I would hope that we would allow for a fulsome debate and reach a judgment on it. http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/apr/040402a.html   (5428 words)      Members of the 38th Canadian Parliament and same-...: Information From Answers.com West Nova, NS March 21st: 2nd reading of the bill, Parliamentary Secretary of Health, Thibault said he has a responsibility to uphold the Charter of Rights and Freedoms: that every Canadian is equal before the law. Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NS March 21st: Made a speech saying Canadians are 'justifly proud' of the Charter of Rights, and that C-38 follows this. Calgary—Nose Hill, AB April 04th: While C-38 was in 2nd reading, Diane said that that the majority of Canadians are against and that changing the defintion would change the effectivness of marriage as the underpinning of society. http://answers.com/topic/members-of-the-38th-canadian-parliament-and-same-...   (5428 words)      The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline The Canadian provinces of Ontario and British Columbia legalized same-sex marriage in 2003, numerous other provinces followed suit in 2004, and on June 29, 2005, the Canadian parliament passed a bill legalizing gay marriage throughout the country. The Mattachine Society, the first national gay rights organization, is formed by Harry Hay, considered by many to be the founder of the gay rights movement. Massachusetts' gay marriage debate taking on form, rhetoric of civil rights movement (AP Worldstream) http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0761909.html   (5428 words)

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