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Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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Today a troubling story out of my home province of Saskatchewan.   If statements coming out of that province are true, this problem exists in other provinces too. A woman who is an Indian citizen, referred to as “Jo”, traveled to Canada...

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In Cambie Surgeries Corporation v British Columbia (Attorney General), the court expressed concerns about the impartiality and independence of certain experts. The plaintiffs sought to have certain provisions of the Medicare Protection Act declared unconstitutional. Patients, they said, should not be...

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Last week, we looked at the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision in Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique v. British Columbia. That decision confirmed that the Province of British Columbia unjustifiably infringed section 23(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights...

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