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Amendment was replaced by Fair Representation Act in 2011. s. 44: Parliament of Canada Constitution Amendment, 1987: s. 3 of Newfoundland Act and term 17 of schedule to that Act: Extended education rights to the Pentecostal Church in Newfoundland. Replaced by Constitution Amendment, 1998 (Newfoundland Act).
Canada Labour Code, 1967; Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968–69; Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act, 1970; Consumer Packaging and Labeling Act, 1970; Weights and Measures Act, 1970; Divorce Act, 1968 - replaced by Divorce Act, 1985; Canada Wildlife Act, 1973; National Symbol of Canada Act, 1975; Anti-Inflation Act 1975; Immigration Act, 1976
The UN Human Rights Council's Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent issued a report in 2017 finding "clear evidence that racial profiling is endemic in the strategies and practices used by law enforcement" in Canada. [49] In 2018 Statistics Canada reported that members of immigrant and visible minority populations, compared with ...
The other amendment formulae are for particular cases as provided by the act. An amendment related to the Office of the King, the use of either official language (subject to section 43), the amending formula itself, or the composition of the Supreme Court, must be adopted by unanimous consent of all the provinces in accordance with section 41 ...
Equal Suffrage Statutory Law Amendment Act, Statutes of Alberta 1916, c. 5: For women who were not Asian or Indigenous: [19] full voting equality: Arthur Sifton: Liberal: 1917: April 5: British Columbia: Provincial Elections Act Amendment Act, 1917, Statutes of British Columbia 1917, c. 23: For women who were not Asian or Indigenous: [20] full ...
Generally, people have the right to use either the English or French language in communications with Canada's federal government and certain provincial governments. Specifically, the language laws in the Charter include: Section 16 English and French are the official languages of Canada and New Brunswick. Section 16.1
The Fulton–Favreau formula was a proposed formula of amendment of the Constitution of Canada developed by federal justice minister E. Davie Fulton and Quebec Liberal Guy Favreau in the 1960s and approved at a federal-provincial conference in 1965. [3] The formula would have achieved the patriation of the Constitution.
Section 35.1 commits the governments of Canada and the provinces "to the principle that, before any amendment is made [to subsection 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867, section 25 of the Charter or sections 35 or 35.1 of the Constitution Act, 1982]" that the Prime Minister will convene a conference of first ministers (i.e. provincial premiers ...