Justice committee  Yes. They all include disability as a prohibited ground for discrimination.

Justice committee  Let's say that I'm wrong in my analysis. The first part does not prohibit discrimination. You asked about the future. Instead of requiring information, let's say that you're in Canada in 2016 and you have Pokémon Go. No one is forced to use Pokémon. No one is required to do it,

Justice committee  Absolutely.

Justice committee  The jurisprudence is replete with tensions between labour law and human rights regimes, and by adopting this statute, which will modify both at the same time, there are possibilities that there will be tensions between those two regimes, and there will be questions as to which is

Justice committee  Certainly. There is one thing that surprises me. It is difficult to say that the objective is necessarily to obtain health information when clause 3 itself seeks to protect the person from having to take a test. Clause 3 seeks only to authorize a person to refuse to take a genet

Justice committee  The health issues covered can not all necessarily be the subject of criminalization. This is precisely what is discussed in the Reference re the Assisted Reproduction Act. Not all public policy measures to promote health can be the subject of a criminal provision. The court hope

Justice committee  Paragraph 56 is actually from Justice McLachlin, who's position on the validity of those sections was in dissent. Paragraph 232 of the majority decision of Justices LeBel and Deschamps states: Health, which Rand J. mentioned, cannot always justify action by Parliament in rela

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, for inviting me to be here today. This is a topic that I have been thinking about for some time. Last night, I found in my archives a paper on genetic discrimination that I did in 1994 for a certain Professor Irwin Cotler. You will understand ther

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

Electoral Reform committee  I would like to clarify something about the consensus. I did not mean to say that everything would necessarily be finished once consensus was reached here. The idea is simply to have a consensus on a specific subject of discussion, rather than discussing in the abstract, and so

Electoral Reform committee  Much like my colleague, Mr. LeDuc, I think that a consensus would be ideal. However, as the old saying goes, “if wishes were horses, beggars would ride”. Therefore, I suggest that you opt for something realistic. If you have two or three models, use them to start the consultation

Electoral Reform committee  I would just like to make a comment on online voting. We haven't said much about it. Personally, I would advise you to be cautious about this. We know that ballot secrecy protects the voter, but, above all, it also protects the system against fraud. When the ballot is secret, it

Electoral Reform committee  I'll be brief to allow my colleague to speak afterward. As was previously mentioned, this is not the first time that the issue of electoral reform has come up for debate in Canada. The Law Commission of Canada already released a report on the issue, and Elections Canada prepared

Electoral Reform committee  On that topic, I would invite you to read—this is a bit of self-promotion—my article on forming government, which won the Germain-Brière award. In this article I examine all the cases where this happened. In Canada there was the King-Byng case, for example. King had obtained fewe

Electoral Reform committee  There are indeed such exchanges. Usually the leader calls. I will, however, give you the opposite example. In 2010, in the United Kingdom, the outgoing government did not have a plurality of seats. The Conservatives had the plurality of seats but not a majority. There were negot