Category: Local Civil Liberties Law

July 23, 2019July 31, 2019 UPDATE: Tuesday July 23, 2019 La version française suit. – For Immediate Release – CIVIL LIBERTIES GROUPS SEEK LEAVE TO APPEAL BILL 21 DECISION NCCM & CCLA file an application for leave to appeal Justice Yergeau’s decision (Montreal – June 23, 2019) The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA)...

With human rights defenders increasingly under attack around the world, civil society organizations today welcomed the Government of Canada’s new guidelines[1] aimed at strengthening its approach to ensuring the safety and security of these courageous activists as part of its feminist foreign policy.  Human rights defenders are often criminalized, targeted with smear campaigns, discredited, threatened, arbitrarily arrested, and face violence...

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November 10, 2020 MEMORANDUMTO: FEDERAL-PROVINCIAL-TERRITORIAL VIDEOCONFERENCE OF MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, MEETING WITH CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHT COMMISSIONS ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020, PANEL DISCUSSION: “HUMAN RIGHTS IN CANADA IN CHALLENGING TIMES” FROM: MICHAEL BRYANT SUBJECT: CANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION SUBMISSION TO FPT CONFERENCE This memorandum sets forth the Canadian Civil Liberties Association’s (CCLA) submissions for FPT...