Event
The 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Charter: Unfinished Business
Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, ۲ݮƵ University. A roundtable, co-hosted by Colleen Sheppard & Vrinda Narain
Event Program(All times are for Montreal, Eastern Daylight Time; all sessions will be hosted on Zoom and recorded.)
09:15 am (ET)
Welcome and Introduction
Colleen Sheppard
09:30 – 11:00 am
Session 1: Missing Rights?
Moderator:Nandini Ramanujam
Speakers:
- Mirja Trilsch: “The Charter at 40 – Who’sstillafraid of social rights?”
- Sébastien Jodoin: “Including the Right to a Healthy Environment in the Charter”
- François Crépeau:“The human rights of migrants: a blind spot everywhere”
11:00-11:15 -- BREAK --
11:15 – 12:45 pm
Session 2: Interpretive Complexities
Moderator: Vrinda Narain
Speakers:
- Tamara Thermitus: «Le droit à l’égalité et l’accès à la justice: une utopie pour les personnes racisées ?»
- Joshua Nichols:"Section 35 is not in theCharter: A Review of the Constitutional "Background" of R. v. Sparrow"
- Colleen Sheppard: “Retrospective on Substantive Equality: Fissures & Fracture”
12:45 – 13:00 pm
Closing remarks:Vrinda Narain
More information:human.rights [at] mcgill.ca