The 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Charter: Unfinished Business

Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill 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’s still afraid 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 the Charter: 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

Zoom link.