Justice committee  The professor has put it quite well, and this also enables the police to come. Even if a charge isn't laid, the police can at least come and tell them they're committing a crime and they have to get out of there right now. This has real value. I would add that part of the purpo

Justice committee  I think there are a couple of reasons. The main section you would use is section 175, causing a disturbance, but if you read it.... One thing you could do is to make subsections 176(2) and 176(3) part of section 175. But section 176 is about creating a disturbance in a public pla

Justice committee  Section 15 of the charter is an equality section. Section 176 does not, in my view, in any way violate anybody's equality, and I don't see how it affects freedom of speech. We're talking about religious services. Churches and synagogues and all the other kinds of religious places

Justice committee  I'll start with the second part first, if you don't mind. I don't see how you can really interpret “clergyman” as meaning anything other than a religious leader, regardless of their gender and regardless of their religion. It's important to note that the courts have said over a

Justice committee  Thank you.