SOSC 3360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Black Canadians, Judicial Notice, Leading Edge
21 Mar 2016
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We don"t usually use secion 15 all that oten. Secion 15 (2) shield that protects airmaive acion program from change. Secion 15 can be used as a sword to challenge legislaion. Most secion 15 cases are beneits cases and the the argument is that secion 15 is under- inclusive legislaion. There is litle legislaion about using secion 15 to challenge criminal legislaion. History of colonialism is making it sound like it is something of the past, whereas efects of it are sill experienced today by certain generaions. Over representaion in prison of aboriginals leaking into our social consciousness. 1996 secion 718 2 (e) of the criminal code judges should look for all opions to imprisonment for everyone; with the paricular atenion to the circumstances of aboriginal ofenders. Safe to say that most people didn"t know what this meant. When governments pass laws that we do not understand, we turn to the scc.
