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The Canadian Charter of Rights and International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

L. C. Green
L. C. Green*
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University of Alberta
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Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international , Volume 20 , 1983 , pp. 3 - 23
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Copyright © The Canadian Council on International Law / Conseil Canadien de Droit International, representing the Board of Editors, Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Comité de Rédaction, Annuaire Canadien de Droit International 1983

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References

1 R.S.C. 1970, App. III.

2 Constitution Act 1982, Part I.

3 Canada Act 1982, c. 11 (U.K.); Constitution Acts 1867–1982.

4 Young, James and Webster (Closed Shop) case (1981) 62 I.L.R. 359.

5 (1950), 213 U.N.T.S. 222.

5a See also R. v. Altseimer, (1982) (Ont. C.A. unreported).

6 (1981) 130 D.L.R. (3d) 588,606.

7 [1962] I.C.J. 319.

8 At 343.

9 Ibid., 387 at 425, 433 (italics added).

10 [1966] I.C.J. 6, 22, 32.

11 At 34–35.

12 1948, G.A. Res. 217 (III) A, Arts. 1, 2.

13 1966, G.A. Res. 2200 (XXI) A, to which Canada became a party in 1976.

14 Ibid.

15 Art. 18.

16 Art. 27.

17 Loc. cit., supra note 5.

18 Art. 12.

19 (1969),9 I.L.M. 99.

20 Ss. 25, 35.

21 S. 28.

22 S. 23.

22a S.Q. 1977, c. 94.

23 Belgian Linguistics case (Merits) (1968) 45 I.L.R. 114, 145. The decision of Deschenes C.J.Q. in Quebec Association of Protestant School Boards v. A.G. Quebec, (1982) (unreported), does not affect the argument herein.

24 At 164.

25 S. 15(2).

26 (1966), 660 U.N.T.S. 195, to which Canada became a party in 1970.

27 At 165, 174, 180.

28 E.g., Art. 9(1).

29 Art. 18(3); see also Art. 19(3).

30 Arts. 8–11.

31 See e.g., Arts. 15 (right of assembly); 16 (freedom of association).

32 S. 6(1).

33 Federal Government of Germany v. Rauca ms. decision, November 4, 1982, at 21, per Evans, C.J.H.C., Ontario.

33a [1980] 1 All E.R. 701, 717.

34 Art. 4(1).

35 Art. 15.

36 Art. 27.

37 See Green, “Derogation from Human Rights in Emergency Situations” (1978), 16 Canadian Yearbook of International Law, at 92.

38 R.S.C. 1970, c. W-2.

39 Proceedings of the Joint Committee, January 19, 1981, 40:37; January 20, 1981, 41:17, resp. (I am grateful to my colleague, Professor T. Christian of the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, for having drawn my attention to these comments.)

40 (1978), 58 I.L.R. 188, 278–79 (paras. 207–9).

41 Supra note 33.

42 R.S.C. 1970, App. II, No. 1.

43 (1930), P.C.I.J., Ser. B, No. 17, 2 Hudson, W.C.R. 640, 653–54.

44 See supra note 26.

45 Mallên Claim (1927), 4 R.I.A.A. 173, 174.

46 Gordon Claim (1930), ibid., 586, 588.

47 (1927), ibid., 155, 159.

48 Way Claim (1928), ibid., 391, 400, “persons concerned with the discharge of governmental functions…. [T]he delinquency on the part of such persons is a misfortune for which the nation must bear the responsibility.”

49 2 H.R.L.J. 1981, 158.

50 (1954), 347 U.S. 483.

51 (1955)5 349 U.S. 294.

52 (1969), 8 I.L.M. 679, Art. 19(c).

53 Address to First Protectorate Parliament, September 12, 1654.

54 G.A. Res. 3452 (XXX), 1975, adopted by consensus.

55 U.N., Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments 65 (1978).

56 Loc. cit., supra note 40, para. 167.

57 (1981 ), 2 H.R.L.J. 143, 144–45.

58 This is well illustrated in the decision of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the “Baby Boy” Abortion case (1981), 2 H.R.L.J. 110; see also Shelton, “Abortion and the Right to Life in the Inter-American System: The Case of ‘Baby Boy’,” ibid., 309.