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DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the şÚÁĎÉç Centre for Human Rights and Legal Plura
 lism\,  F.R. Scott Chair in Public & Constitutional Law\, Constitutional L
 aw Society\, and the Feminist Legal Collective.\n\nIn Dickson v. Vuntut Gw
 itchin First Nation (2024)\, the Supreme Court of Canada gave a robust int
 erpretation of section 25 of the Charter\, effectively shielding laws made
  by Indigenous self-governing communities from full scrutiny under section
  15. This broad reading of section 25’s power came despite its explicit wo
 rding as an interpretive clause and its historically rare application by c
 ourts.\n\nSection 28\, which guarantees equal rights to male and female pe
 rsons “notwithstanding anything” in the Charter and was once considered on
 e of its most powerful provisions. Yet\, like section 25\, it has seen lit
 tle judicial analysis. That is likely to change when the Supreme Court con
 siders whether section 28 overrides the section 33 notwithstanding clause 
 in the upcoming appeal of Quebec’s Law 21.\n\nProfessor Froc’s talk will e
 xplore the implications of Dickson\, how the decision reshapes our underst
 anding of section 28\, and what it means for the future of women’s equal r
 ights under the Charter.\n\nBio\n\nKerri Froc is an Associate Professor at
  UNB Law and is currently the Law Foundation of Saskatchewan H. Robert Ars
 cott Chair at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law.Dr. Froc write
 s on topics such as constitutional interpretation\, access to justice\, re
 productive rights\, women’s rights of political representation\, and compl
 ex rights violations experienced by working women\, poor women and raciali
 zed and Indigenous women.  She is an expert on section 28 of the Canadian 
 Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is a well-known media commentator on Ca
 nadian constitutional issues.\n\nFor more information\, please write to Ch
 rlp.law [at] mcgill.ca \n
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LOCATION:Room 101\, John W. Durnford Classroom
SUMMARY:Rethinking the Charter’s “Interpretive” Clauses: What Dickson means
  for Women’s Equal Rights   
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 ve-clauses-what-dickson-means-womens-equal-rights-363927
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