Justice committee  On your point around putting a catch-all at the end to say that nothing in this section limits freedom of expression, I don't agree that we need that. Our Supreme Court has been clear that none of our freedoms are absolute; they always can be limited by reasonableness. I don't

Justice committee  I would echo that. My last call was really for creating some sort of federal entity that can collect that kind of data. I think about the work of Stats Canada. We recently had a call with Statistics Canada around collecting information on hidden homelessness. While that seems lik

Justice committee  Who wants to go first?

Justice committee  It's a great question, because it's a question about accessibility. I dealt with it as a lawyer who is the ED of the South Asian Legal Clinic and has a whole heap of privilege behind me, so I can blast back, right? I can call the police and they'll take my call. I can do a number

Justice committee  Do you want to take it, or do you want me to? Okay, you go ahead.

Justice committee  Okay. I'm going to go really quickly. I won't repeat what everyone has said on section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. What I will say is that I worked using that section, and it was effective to combat online hate. The section, as it's written, does include a recognition t

Justice committee  Thank you. Thank you to the committee for having us here. I'm here with my colleague Sukhpreet Sangha, and we'll be speaking interchangeably today. Very quickly, the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario is a not-for-profit legal aid clinic that works with low-income South Asia

Justice committee  We haven't seen it in any of the other legislation, but we had this conversation around the definition of family violence when they were creating the conditional permanent residence. The reality is that we're at a time and place in the world where cyber-violence is actually one

Justice committee  The crux of the problem is that when we encounter stakeholders in the family court system, their level of understanding of family violence is vastly different, depending on their own training. When you have broad terms such as “where it's appropriate”, to me, because of my backgr

Justice committee  Do you want to take the first question?

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Moving on, I'd like to address some of our specific concerns about proposed subsection 16(3) regarding the best interests of the child.

Justice committee  Okay. I'll do this very quickly. I won't go through them in detail, but I will say that there are three proposed subsections in particular around the willingness of a spouse to help a child foster a relationship with their partner, and the willingness to communicate. The confusi

Justice committee  Thank you. On behalf of the South Asian Legal Clinic, we would like to thank you for allowing us to appear today in front of the committee. I'll be sharing my time with my colleague Silmy Abdullah. The South Asian Legal Clinic is a legal aid clinic that serves exclusively raci

Canadian Heritage committee  Around the issue of the narrative of xenophobia?