Dion vows to restore court challenges program
Liberal leader Stéphane Dion says he will reverse the Conservatives' pattern of "antagonism and neglect" toward Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
It's Equality Day in Canada - the 25th anniversary of the Charter coming into force - and Dion says it's hard not to notice that Conservatives don't seem to be celebrating.
Dion told a Charter conference at the University of Ottawa this morning that a Liberal government would restore the Law Commission of Canada and double the old funding of the Court Challenges program, which were both dedicated to making the Charter and the judicial system accessible to citizens but were cut since Prime Minister Stephen Harper came to power.
Harper was invited to the same conference, but cited scheduling difficulties and none of his cabinet members appeared either.
The Conservative government cut off funding last fall for the court challenges program and the law reform commission, a think tank that explored ways to improve the law.
LINK: Toronto Star
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The Charter is part of the so-called “Constitution Act, 1982”. The “United Kingdom”, referred to in the present draft of the “Canada Act, 1982, including the Constitution Act, 1982”, refers to the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, not the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”.
According to the British North America Act, 1867, the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick expressed their desire to be federally united into one Dominion under the Crown of the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”, not the Crown of the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”.
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