POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fetus
21 Jan 2017
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1984, another guy faced same thing as skapinker argued equality rights and won. 1985 - singh - argued infringement of life, liberty and security (section 7) and won. Canada one of top 3 countries to accept refugees after this case. 1985 - lord"s day act - infringement of freedom of religion, won case, problem was whole corporation could not claim freedom of religion. 1986 - oakes - cops can charge for trafficking (section of narcotics act) oakes argued this section violated innocent until proven guilty" reasonable limits cause - objective and means justified in free and democratic society. Woodworth - wanted to change definition of fetus - only way to change abortion law. Keegstra - charged for promoting hatred against identifiable group, jewish people, he lost case, but barely because court said it was his views, but he promoted hatred, rather than shared his views.
