Justice committee  Before I give the floor to Ms. Maillet, I want to make one point. In my presentation, I spoke of the need for a broad, coordinated and multi-faceted approach. The current radical growth of online hate mustn't be addressed by a single organization. Instead, there must be a coordi

Justice committee  I'll start responding, and then I'll turn the floor over to my colleague. In two very clear decisions rendered in different years by different groups of justices, the Supreme Court of Canada established that certain limits were reasonable in a democratic society. While we must h

Justice committee  As I was appointed after the repeal of section 13, I'll ask Madam Maillet to answer that question.

Justice committee  Good morning. My remarks will be offered in both official languages. Thank you for inviting the Canadian Human Rights Commission to participate in this discussion today on online hate. I am joined by my colleague Monette Maillet, Deputy Executive Director and Senior General Cou

Justice committee  Thank you.

Human Resources committee  Yes, absolutely. Thank you for your question, and I will answer in French, if I may. At the Canadian Human Rights Commission, we are at arm's length from government. We report to Parliament, either through our special power to report to Parliament or though our annual report

Human Resources committee  I think it's complementary. We have the complaint process, and it has addressed some problems, but the thing with the bill is it's proactive. It's going to bring forward a completely different way to address systemic situations of accessibility or lack of accessibility. For me, t

Human Resources committee  The accessibility commissioner will have the specific mandate to audit and to receive complaints. There will be a specific mandate. I have a broad mandate to receive applications and complaints and to do promotion and education under the Canadian Human Rights Act. The accessibi

Human Resources committee  As my colleague mentioned, we need to have the proper tools to report on that specifically, and this is what we are doing. The Canadian Human Rights Commission is working to make sure that we will be able to report on that with the appropriate tools, and for that we need appropri

Human Resources committee  The funds at the Canadian Human Rights Commission have not been increased for 14 years, and that's a challenge we're working on.

Human Resources committee  Yes. Overall at the commission, disability complaints usually make up between 57% and 60% of all the complaints we receive. About half of these are related to accessibility. From 2008 to September 2018, the commission received 4,171 disability-related complaints.

Human Resources committee  It could be employment, services, transportation, communications, accessible buildings.

Human Resources committee  Yes. Thank you for your question. “Temporary or episodic in nature” is already in the definition of this bill. What is important in our review at the Canadian Human Rights Commission is that every person who suffers from a disability find themselves in the act. This is an impo

Human Resources committee  What I will add is that the commission recognized the technical expertise and the long experience of other sectoral bodies in dealing with their specific and sometimes technical areas of jurisdiction. They are experts in their respective fields. What is important for us as the Ca

Human Resources committee  My colleague will start and I will add on.