Policy Submissions

Our submissions address how laws or policies may infringe on civil liberties, and provide recommendations to protect fundamental rights and freedoms.

• 
  Democratic Rights
• 
  Drug Policy
• 
  Freedom of Expression
• 
  Human Rights
• 
  National Security
• 
  Police Accountability
• 
  Privacy

Document Over 70 Organizations Call for a Ban on Police Street Checks

Posted on July 6, 2020

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Privacy Rights and Civil Liberties Organizations Express Concerns about Government’s Contact-Tracing Announcement

Posted on June 24, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Privacy

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Joint Letter on Sheltering in Victoria City Parks

Posted on June 23, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Harm Reduction, Poverty & Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Safety for People in Homeless Encampments

Posted on May 21, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Police Accountability, Search and Seizure

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Request to add Indigenous Identity to BC’s Human Rights Code

Posted on May 19, 2020

Topic: Human Rights, Indigenous Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Decriminalize simple drug possession immediately

Posted on May 14, 2020

Topic: Anti-Prohibition, COVID-19, Drug Policy

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Protecting Involuntary Mental Health Act Patients and Staff During COVID-19

Posted on May 12, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Patients' Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Ramadan Accommodations for Muslim Prisoners at OCDC

Posted on May 7, 2020

Topic: Discrimination, Prisoners' Rights, Religion

Type: Policy Submissions

Document COVID-19 Should Not Be a Death Sentence for Prisoners

Posted on April 28, 2020

Topic: COVID-19

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Joint statement on Digital surveillance technologies and COVID-19 in Canada

Posted on April 24, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Privacy

Type: Policy Submissions