January 29 Ottawa The Joint […]
When
1981-01-29
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January 29 Ottawa The Joint Senate/House of Commons Committee on the Constitution defeated, by a vote of twenty-two to two, an amendment to add protection from discrimination based on sexual orientation to the proposed Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. The amendment had been sponsored by NDP justice critic Svend Robinson and had received little debate. Only Robinson (NDP–Burnaby) and Lorne Nystrom (NDP–Yorkton-Melville) supported the amendment. Robinson later claimed that the Canadian Armed Forces and the RCMP were the main opponents to including sexual orientation protection in the Charter.
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OttawaAll People
Lorne NystromSvend RobinsonAll Organizations
Dominion Police, North-West Mounted Police, Royal Northwest Mounted Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMPCanadian Armed ForcesNew Democratic PartyAll Monograph
Canadian Charter of Human Rights and FreedomsAll Citations
Glenn Walton, "Gays React: Constitution," Dalhousie Gazette (Dalhousie Univ., Halifax), 12 February 1981."NDP's Move to Give Homosexuals Same Rights as Heterosexuals Fails," Kingston Whig-Standard, city final home ed., 30 January 1981, p. 2Maurice Middlesex, "Gay Rights: What Now?" (editorial), Fredericton FLAGMAG, no. 2 (1981), p. 2"Gay Rights Nixed in Charter of Rights," Grassroots, Spring 1981, p. 15"Gay Rights Defeated," Fredericton FLAGMAG, no. 2 (1981), pp. 4–5Gilles Garneau, "Les libéraux et les conservateurs s'opposent à la protection des droits des gais dans la constitution," Le Berdache, no. 18 (1981), p. 21David Garmaise, "Gays Closed Out: Charter of Rights," Body Politic, no. 71 (1981), p. 14"Forces Rather Fight than Swish," Gauntlet (Univ. of Calgary), 6 March 1981"Constitutional Homecoming?" Gay Saskatchewan (Saskatoon), February–April 1981, pp. (8, 11)"Closing Words/Constitution," Grassroots, Spring 1981, pp. 8, 11
