Submissions and Resolutions

Submission to Legislative Committee on Bill C-38

Letter to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

Whereas racial profiling is any action undertaken by a person in a position of authority or an organization, for reasons of safety, security or public protection, that relies on stereotypes about race, ethnicity, nationality, ancestry, place of origin, aboriginality, or religion, rather than on reasonable suspicion, to single out an individual or group for different treatment or greater scrutiny

Submission to House of Commons Justice Committee

Letter to Prime Minister

Submission to the Minster of National Defence

Submission on Marriage and the Legal Recognition of Same-Sex unions.

Whereas the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in Dagenais v. CBC, CBC v. New Brunswick (Attorney General) and R. v. Mentuck on the desirability of providing notice to the media of applications for discretionary publication bans and sealing orders and on the requirement for courts to take into account the fundamental right of freedom of expression as entrenched in section 2(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms whenever a discretionary publication ban is sought in criminal proceedings

Submission to the Minister of Foreign Affairs

Submission of the Canadian Bar Association