Correspondence, memorandum, notes, court documents, and copies of newspaper clippings from the Department of Justice regarding the Vivian Corbiere Lavell case over gender discrimination in the Indian Act with respect to aboriginal women losing band status if they marry a non-aboriginal man or someone from a different band. Specifically discussing the aftermath and fallout from the Supreme Court siding against Lavell and maintaining the old law.
Correspondence, notes, speeches, transcripts of telephone conversations, and supporting documents regarding Mary Two-Axe Earley and her activism for the status rights of aboriginal woman.
Correspondence and supporting documentation regarding the continued membership to the Human Rights Institute of Canada from Charlotte Provencher of the Quebec Indian Rights for Indian Women organization following the death of Mary Two-Axe Earley.
Correspondence, memorandum, notes, newspaper clippings, transcripts, and supporting documentation regarding Edith Whetung and fights for status rights of aboriginal women and ammending the Indian Act.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, promotional materials, speeches, and supporting materials regarding Suzanne Stratton Wood, Director and past Chairperson of the Friends of the Teaching Rocks Association claiming misuse of funds and conspiracy in the maintenance and research into the petroglyphs at Petroglyph Provincial Park in Ontario and the subsequent scandal.
Correspondence with Nellie Carlson of the Alberta Committee on Indian Rights for Indian Women, memorandum, notes, and supporting documentation regarding gender discrimination by band leaders against aboriginal women, band finances and financial control, Persons Case II, and disagreements with Senator Walter Twinn over changes to the Indian Act.
Background remarks and court documents from the Federal Court of Canada case challenging the constitutionality of the 1985 ammendment to the Indian Act requiring bands to accept former band members back into the band member list.
Presentations, testimony, press releases, and correspondence regarding the Assembly of First Nations making a case for self-government.
Correspondence, court documents from the Ontario Court of Appeal, and notes regarding patronage of Cabinet appointments and possible political corruptions related to patronage.
Copies of newspaper clippings regarding patronage of Cabinet positions, John Turner's short term as Prime Minister, and the Meech Lake Accord.
Copies of newspaper clippings and correspondence regarding the life and legacy of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
Correspondence, archival research, access to information requests, speeches, Senate debates, and reports regarding the Spicer Commission from the Task Force on Canadian Unity and the Citizens' Forum.
Copies of newspaper clippings regarding reactions to the Meech Lake Accord.
Copies of newspaper clippings regarding reactions to the Meech Lake Accord, implications of the meech Lake Accord, and multiculuralism and bilingualism.
Copies of newspaper clippings regarding reactions to the Meech Lake Accord, implications of the meech Lake Accord, and Quebec separatism.
Copies of newspaper clippings regarding reactions to the Meech Lake Accord, Quebec separation, and the Quebec referendum of succession.
Senate debates, minutes of the proceedings of a joint committee of the Senate and House of Commons, and a brief submitted by the Human Rights Institute of Canada to the Senate-House of Commons joint committee regarding the Meech Lake Accord.
Correspondence and court documentation regarding the treatment of the Yukon in the Meech Lake Accord.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, Senate debates, reports, and summaries regarding the treatment of the Yukon in the Meech Lake Accord and the Task force onm the Meech Lake Accord and the Yokon and Northwest Territories. Also includes "Meech Lake Frozen Over: The 1987 Constitutional Amendment and its Effect on the North" by Alexander M. Voudouris, Judicial Research Assistant of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories.
Minutes of proceeding of the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and of the House of Commons, correspondence, analysis report, memorandum, articles, and research regarding the Meech Lake Accord and the Human Rights Institute of Canada's submission to the Special Joint Committee.
Correspondence and newsletters regarding support from Human Rights Institute of Canada members against the Meech Lake Accord and Ottawa bilingualism.
Correspondence, conference planning materials, notes, biographies of speakers, advertisements, and supporting documents regarding the Human Rights Institute of Canada's "Reaching Up" conference on the Meech Lake Accord.
Reports, memorandum, and documents regarding the first Ministers' conference on the Meech Lake Accord.
Reports, House of Commons debates, and correspondence regarding the first Ministers' conference on the Meech Lake Accord.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, articles, background papers, and supporting documentation regarding Gil Remillard's role in the Meech Lake Accord. A 2007 reflection on the Meech Lake Accord and power transfer to Quebec.
House of Commons debates and Senate debates regarding the Meech Lake Accord.
Submissions, briefs, and presentations regarding the Meech Lake Accord to the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons on the Constitutional Accord.
Speeches, reports, submissions, and background papers regarding the Meech Lake Accord and the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons on the Constitutional Accord. Also includes a copy of the 1982 constitution and "A Companion Resolution to the Meech Lake Accord" from the Federal-Provincial Relations Office.
Legislation, speeches, correspondence, and a proclamation regarding New Brunswick's bilingual language policy.
Correspondence, speeches, and memorandum regarding a New Brunswick constitutional amendment.
Correspondence and press releases regarding the legality of the New Brunswick constitutional amendment on bilingualism.
Correspondence and questionaire to politicians regarding the New Brunswick constitutional amendment on bilingualism.
Correspondence and questionaire to politicians regarding the New Brunswick constitutional amendment on bilingualism.
Tables and lists compiling responses to a questionaire to politicians on the New Brunswick constitutional amendment on bilingualism.
Correspondence, memorandum, press releases, and transcripts regarding the Oka Crisis, the role of the military, and the power of governments to call in the military for civil issues. Also includes Humanist in Canada magazine number 94.
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, House of Commons bills, House of Commons debates, press releases, and newsletters regarding the recognition of Quebec as a disctinct society, bilingualism in federal government and Quebec, the 1995 separation referendum, and Quebec sovereignty.
Memorandum, press releases, House of Commons bill, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding a proposed bill to clarify separation practices for provinces.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, newsletters, memorandum, and research regarding the creation of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration.
Correspondence, legal research, articles, memorandum, Supreme Court law review, and legislation regarding the Nanoose Bay judgement, expropriation of provincial land, the Nuclear Liability Act, and implications of jurisdiction following the Nanoose Bay decision.
Correspondence, memorandum, and hearing documents regarding the Nanoose Bay expropriation hearings.
Press releases, correspondence, notes, memorandum, and hearing documents regarding the Nanoose Bay expropriation hearings and the legal position of the findings.
Correspondence, statements, and memorandum regarding Connie Fogal's submission to the Nanoose Bay expropriation hearings and a information session held in Ottawa by the Human rights Institute of Canada on the hearings.
Correspondence, newsletters, and statements regarding Connie Fogal's submission to the Nanoose Bay expropriation hearings, her work in politics, annexation of territory, and provincial separation.
Correspondence with provincial and federal representatives, memorandum, press releases, House of Commons debates, copies of newspaper clippings, and supporting documents regarding the expropriation of Nanoose Bay and the Nanoose Bay Testing Range.
Copies of newspaper clippings regarding the expropriation of Nanoose Bay and nuclear disarmament.
Correspondence, memorandum, notes, copies of newspaper clippings, and press releases regarding the expropriation of Nanoose Bay, nuclear weapons tests, and appeals of the expropriation.
Memorandum, notes, summaries, management plan framework, correspondence, and supporting documents regarding the history of the Nanoose Bay expropriation and the legal process and arguements of the court cases.
Correspondence and copies of newspaper clippings regarding Paul Martin's legacy as Prime Minister and information about taxation and the national debt when Paul Martin was Minister of Finance.
Copies of newspaper clippings and notes regarding Stephen Harper's prorogation of parliament and the proposed Liberal, Bloc Quebecois, and New Democratic Part (NDP) coalition.
Copies of newspaper clippings regarding Stephen Harper's term as Prime Minister, his legacy, the question of Quebec as a nation, the 2005 election campaign, and Stephen Harper's positions within the Reform Part and the Canadian Alliance Party.
Correspondence, memorandum, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding Adrienne Clarkson's tenure as Governor General and titles used for the spouse of a Governor General.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, and notes regarding Lloyd Axworthy's position as Minister Responsible for the Status of Women, Nanoose Bay, militarism, and refugees. Also includes "The Perpetuation of a Myth" The Anderson-Axworthy Affair" by Bernice Sisler.
Press releases, presentation, and copies of newspaper articles regarding Member of Parliament Garry Breitkreuz's work to get rid of the gun registry.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, memorandum, and speeches regarding Stephane Dion's role as Intergovernmental Affairs Minister with regard to Quebec separatism, Quebec as a distinct society, and bilingualism.
Information kit from Member of Parliament Jim Fulton on the Leonard Peltier extradition case, including House of Commons debates, correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, and reports.
Correspondence, greeting cards, press releases, notes, biographies, memorandum, speeches, and House of Commons bills regarding Member of Beryl Gaffney's work to have the tax on child benefits removed, Persons Case II, and the Governor General's Persons Award. Includes a 2009 reflection of the work and legacy of Beryl Gaffney.
Correspondence, memorandum, notes, press releases, and House of Commons debates regarding Member of Parliament Deborah Grey, Persons Case II, the misrepresentation of Persons Case, the New Brunswick constitutional amendment, Senate reform, and Qyebec separation.
Correspondence, House of Commons debates, indexes, reports, copies of newspaper clippings, and magazine articles regarding Member of Parliament Judy LaMarsh on women in politics, state visits to Canada, and being an outspoken politician.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, press releases, and House of Commons debate indexes regarding Member of Parliament Dan McKenzie, his opposition to the Official Languages Act and bilingualism, and his subsequent treatment within politics.
Correspondence, memorandum, copies of newspaper clippings, encyclopedia entries, and House of Commons debates regarding Member of Parliament Bob Ringma, bilingualism, the expropriation of Nanoose Bay, and the New Brunswick constitutional amendment.
Copies of newspaper clippings, House of Commons debates, biographies, and encyclopedia entries regarding Member of PartialemtnVick Toews and bilingualism.
Copies of newspaper clippings, correspondence, encyclopedia entries, memorandum, and notes regarding Brian Dickson's legacy, bilingualism, Persons Case II, national unity and Quebec as a distinct society, and the Meech Lake Accord.
Correspondence with Judge Mark MacGuigan, copies of newspaper clippings, and an article regarding jusdicial activism, Persons Case II, and limits of federal government power,
Copies of newspaper clippings, memorandum, notes, correspondence, and speeches regarding Bertha Wilson being the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, her retirement, her death, Persons Case II, the cancellation of the Court Challenges Program by Prime Minister Kim Campbell, Bertha Wilson being appointed Chair of the Task Force on Gender Equality for legal professionals, family violence, and the impact of women as judges. Also includes a copy of an article in the McGill Law Journal entitled "Democracy, Judging and Bertha Wilson" by Robert E. Hawkins and Robert Martin.
Correspondence, press releases, memorandum, speeches, copies of newspaper clippings, and supporting documents regarding bilingualism at Canadian Embassies, conflicts in Sri Lanka, foreign policy, the middle east, rights of children, international trade, racism, apartheid, human rights, and freedom of speech.
Correspondence, reports, essays, lists, notes, and annual reports regarding racism, torture, human rights day, international trade, foreign affairs, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) participating with United Nations actions, and military spending.
Correspondence, memorandum, copies of newspaper clippings, report, and United Nations records regarding the activism of Rose Ndayahoze to expose genocide in Burundi.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, and legislative acts regarding the National Capital Commission (NCC) and criticisms of the NCC.
Copies of newspaper clippings, copies of magazine articles, memorandum, speeches, and newsletters regarding Kurdish refugees, Kurds in Canada, and foreign policy on conflicts affecting the Kurds.
Copies of newspaper clippings, correspondence, newsletters, resolutions, speeches, convention documents, press releases, and memorandum regarding the New Democratic Party (NDP), NDP policies, Persons Case II, youth employment, poverty, equality, and arts and culture.
Box contains proposals, reports, press releases, statements, open letters, First Minister conference papers, speeches, working document pamphlettes, cultural agreements, and copies of book chapters regarding Senate reform, Supreme Court reform, constitutional revisions, diversity, legislative powers, government services, languages, monarchy, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Franc-Canadian cultural agreements, provinces and international agreements, the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems - Quebec, and civil liberties. Also contains The Constitutional Amendment Bill: Text and Explanatory Notes by the Government of Canada, Constitutional Decisions from the Supreme Court of Canada, and "Equality: The Heart of A Just Society" by the Government of Canada in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Correspondence and copies of newspaper clippings regarding former NDP leader Ed Broadbent's support for Persons Case II as part of his work with the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, newsletters from Civil Rights in Public Education, Inc., and "Not Carved in Stone: Public Funding of Separate Schools in Ontario" by Renton H. Patterson regarding publically funded Catholic schools in Ontario.
Correspondence, legislation, and supporting documents regarding research requests from the Human Rights Institute of Canada to the Supreme Court of Canada Library on the outcomes of various court cases.
Correspondence and copies of newspaper clippings regarding research requests from the Human Rights Institute of Canada to the Offices of Prime Ministers Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, and Jean Chretien, including questions about the Official Languages Act and the Meech Lake Accord.
Correspondence, lists of ministers, biographies, and memorandum regarding the role of the department of justice, research requests, and list of Ministers of Justice dating back to 1867.
Correspondence, notes, working group documents, summaries, and background documents regarding the Department of Justice's National Symposium on Woman, Law and the Administration of Justice. Also includes an "Overview of recent activites" by the Department of Justice.
Correspondence, panel presentations, and keynotes speeches from the Department of Justice's National Symposion on Women, Law and the Administration of Justice, as well as follow up regarding actions taken by the Department of Justice after the symposium.
Copies of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and Senate debates regarding Access to Information, Privacy Acts, redacted documents, and government secrecy as a result of censoring documents.
Copies of newspaper clippings and correspondence regarding the direction of the government, the Trudeau government, and Parliamentary government in Canada.
Notes regarding Canadian history and the history of the government and Parliament.
Copies of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and notes regarding pension plans for politicians, severance pay for Members of Parliament, the power of the Prime Minister, and Judith Anne Booth's suspension from the Canadian Radio-Television Commission (CRTC) for running for a seat in Parliament while holding a sensitive public service position.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, notes, legislation, court decisions, and memorandum regarding the rules and regulation for federal elections, Elections Canada, court cases on elections and funding, candidate selection and party nomination, criminal law in the United States, referendum results, and the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, encyclopedia entries, and legislation regarding oaths taken by various elected officials and public servants and efforts made to remove the Queen from oaths and addresses.
Legislation regarding treason, as well as correspondence and copies of newspaper clippings regarding Cabinet ministers for franchophone culture for the province of Ontario.
Correspondence, memorandum, and research regarding name, logo, and emblem changes to federal services and departments such as Library and Archives Canada and Canada Post, as well as Quebec being the only province to use the term 'national' to describe its provincial institutes, such as the Bibliotheque et Archives nationale du Quebec (BAnQ).
Copies of newspaper clippings, memorandum, research, correspondence, press releases, and magazines regarding la Francophonie, francohpones outside of Quebec, and bilingualism.
Correspondence and copies of newspaper clippings sent to the Human Rights Institute of Canada by Robert Marquis regardings a claim to favouratism to francophones in federal government positions.
Copies of newspaper clippings regarding the creation of the Canadian flag and the Canadian flag flying in the Quebec legislature.
Copies of book chapters from "Disallowance and Reservation of Provincial LEgislation" by G.V. la Forest of the Department of Justice.
Copies of political cartoons regarding the Meech Lake Accord and constituional reform.
Correspondence, copies of political cartoons, and notes regarding cartoons mailed in to the Human Rights Institute of Canada on Canadian politics, patronage, constitutional reform, and women's rights.
Correspondence with Speaker of the Ontario Provincial Parliament Chris Stockwell regarding a ruling made by Speaker Stockwell finding the provincial government of Mike Harris in contempt for publishing legislative changes before they were introduced in the legislature.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, and a brief to the Senate committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs regarding the renaming of Dominion Day into Canada Day and the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) charity.
Access to Information requests and Cabinet documents regarding the Cabinet meeting held January 14, 1969 wherein Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau presented his proposal for the Official Languages Act and documents following up on this proposal.
Copies of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and memorandum regarding a legal case against Air Canada for failure to provide service in French.
Memorandum from the Attorney General of Saskatchewan, Darrel V. Heald, to Minister of Justice John Turner regarding the Official Languages Act and critiques of it from the government of Saskatchewan.
Correspondence, memorandum, press releases, court documents, speeches, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding the Equality Party, language rights in Quebec, discrimination against anglophones in Quebec, Quebec separatism, and the 1995 Quebec referendum.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, and press releases regarding McGill University psychology professor Don Donderi's support for the Human Rights Institute of Canada, his work with the Canadians for Language Fairness, and language rights in Quebec.
Copies of newspaper clippings regarding Quebec politics, international relations between France and Quebec, and Quebec sovereignty and separatism.