The proposed amendment is one that certainly touches on and would primarily deal with employment-related actions taken against researchers, including a student at a post-secondary or research institution. The issue that raises is that the employment relationships with respect to researchers and students in universities, or even a private sector research facility, are relationships that would typically be under provincial jurisdiction and not federal constitutional jurisdiction. So the amendment as proposed does present an issue from a constitutional perspective, in that employment and labour relations in those institutions is really a matter of provincial legislative jurisdiction.
On June 13th, 2006. See this statement in context.