Policy Submissions

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

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

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

Document Letter Regarding Protection Orders During COVID-19 Pandemic

Posted on April 20, 2020

Topic: Access to Justice, COVID-19

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Joint Call for Human Rights Oversight of Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Posted on April 15, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Patients' Rights, Poverty & Rights, Prisoners' Rights, Sex Workers' Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Letter on the conditional and compassionate release of incarcerated people to prevent the spread of COVID-19

Posted on April 15, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Prisoners' Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Letter Opposing the Closure of Canada-US Border to Refugees

Posted on April 15, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Immigration

Type: Policy Submissions