Reading Time: 4 minutes (Disponible en français : Législation fédérale concernant les personnes handicapées : la situation actuelle) Note: This publication was updated in December, 2018: Update — Federal Legislation affecting People with Disabilities: Where We Are Today A Move towards a Canadians with… Read More ›
Law, justice and rights
Canada’s Third Universal Periodic Review Before the United Nations Human Rights Council
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Disponible en français : Troisième examen périodique universel du Canada devant le Conseil des droits de l’homme des Nations Unies) On 11 May, Canada’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General will lead a delegation of senior federal civil servants and representatives… Read More ›
Update — Violence Against Women in Canada: The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Disponible en français : Mise à jour — La violence faite aux femmes au Canada : la Journée nationale de commémoration et d’action contre la violence faite aux femmes) Every year on 6 December, the National Day of Remembrance and Action… Read More ›
150 Years of Legislative Bilingualism in Canada: Past and Present
Reading Time: 6 minutes (Disponible en français : 150 ans de bilinguisme législatif au Canada : d’hier à aujourd’hui) This HillNote provides an historic and contemporary look at the evolution of legislative bilingualism in the Canadian parliamentary context. The genesis of a political compromise… Read More ›
‘Welfare’ of a Nation: The Origins of ‘Peace, Order and Good Government’
Reading Time: 6 minutes Disponible en français: Le bien-être d’un pays : origine de l’expression « paix, ordre et bon gouvernement » Some 150 years ago, Canada’s Fathers of Confederation hit upon a phrase that has come to define Parliament’s lawmaking authority in relation… Read More ›
International Context for Refugee Protection
Reading Time: 6 minutes (Disponible en français : Le contexte international de la protection des réfugiés) More people than ever before have been displaced from their homes around the world as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence and human rights violations. The United… Read More ›
Constitutional Protection of the Right to Strike
Reading Time: 3 minutes (Disponible en français : La protection constitutionnelle du droit de grève) On 30 January 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada recognized a constitutional protection of the right to strike, ruling that it is an indispensable part of collective bargaining. The… Read More ›