CRM 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Irene Parlby, Supreme Court Of Canada, Nellie Mcclung
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The charter of rights and freedoms is a topic that feminists and marginalized groups have been concerned about in terms of rights and inequality, since canada has a history of racist and sexist rule of law. It s really evident in the way they word the charter . Persons and he if the law refers to a single person. A main critique about the charter is that it originated from a white, male left ideology. A lot of criticism about the charter focuses on the negative uses that can (and have been) made against the charter. We re just going to quickly explain some of these criticisms: The idea of formal equality (individuals are portrayed as formal equals, taken out of their social relations of inequality, which basically masks inequality, making it harder for marginalized groups to prove inequality or discrimination.