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Canadian Constitution FoundationEducation InitiativesOur Education Initiatives serve as a means to help all Canadians understand their constitutional freedom. With this knowledge, Canadians will find themselves in a better position to know when their individual freedoms, economic liberty or equality before the law are being threatened by government. Our education projects include studies and reports published in-house, as well as commentary published in local and national media.
 Regulation of Property Use and Regulatory Takings in AlbertaRussell Brown and Graham Purse Canadian Constitution Foundation, November 22, 2011
This study takes a snapshot of legislation in a single province – Alberta – and categorizes all such regulations upon property use. From easements, to expropriations, searches without warrants, taxes, limitations on causes of action, and seizures, among other restrictions on private property, the limitations on the rights of Albertans to possess property, use it for consumption or further production, exchange it for money or other property, dispose of it, or restrict the access of others to it, are extensive.
The Right that Dares not Speak its NameCanadian Constitution Foundation, January 28, 2010
Canadians seem to attach different connotations to the phrase “human rights” depending upon the geographical location of the events being discussed.
When we talk about human rights in Third World countries, we often mean something quite dramatic: the rights not to be silenced, arbitrarily imprisoned, tortured or even murdered by one’s own government. For instance, many Canadians urged our government throughout the decade 2000-2009 to raise with Chinese leaders the forced harvesting of donor organs from imprisoned members of the Falun Gong sect, currently a prominent blotch on China’s human rights record.
Is 'Inherent Aboriginal Self-Government' Constitutional
Canadian Constitution Foundation, January 13, 2010
This legal position paper argues that a constitutionally valid form of aboriginal self-government may be created through federal legislation that delegates government powers and authority to an aboriginal community. This has been done successfully with the Sechelt Indian Band Self-Government Act, the Yukon First Nation Self-Government Act, and the Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act. The delegation of federal and provincial powers enables aboriginals to use municipal-style government to run their own affairs, exercise their aboriginal rights, and use aboriginal title lands.
The Right to Offend:a Canadian Constitutional Principle
John Carpay and Desmond Burton-Williams Canadian Constitution Foundation, November 14, 2008
This paper outlines Canada's long-standing tradition of tolerance for free expression. It examines the historical progress away from government censorship and towards free expression, from the 1600s to the 1900s. It also highlights what the Supreme Court of Canada has said, from the 1930s to the present, about the search for truth.
Kangaroo Courts?Analyzing the conflict between human rights tribunals and Canadians’ fundamental freedoms
John Carpay, with James McLean Canadian Constitution Foundation, July 28, 2008
Kangaroo Courts? provides a chilling look at some of the case histories of Canada's Federal and Provincial Human Rights Tribunals. The paper examines four categories of Human Rights Tribunal decisions: Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Religion, Public Policy and Private Business. Mr. Carpay and Mr. McLean illustrate how these court decisions in favour of "hurt feeling" represent a loss of freedom for all Canadians.
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