- Canadian Civil Liberties Association
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name = Canadian Civil Liberties Association
caption = CCLA logo
membership = 6,500 members
language = English
headquarters =Toronto ,Canada
formation = 1964
website = http://www.ccla.org/The Canadian Civil Liberties Association or CCLA, is a
non-governmental organization inCanada that is devoted to the defense ofcivil liberties andcivil rights .The CCLA was founded in 1964 and is based in
Toronto, Ontario . Its current president is Marsha Hanen, who is also a former president of theUniversity of Winnipeg .Alan Borovoy has been the CCLA's general counsel since 1968.The Association notably spoke out vigorously against the 1970 invocation of the
War Measures Act by thenPrime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau in response to theOctober Crisis inQuebec .The CCLA's records are preserved at
Library and Archives Canada .Litigation
upreme Court of Canada
The CCLA has intervened in numerous cases before the
Supreme Court of Canada , including:* "
Nova Scotia Board of Censors v. McNeil ", [1976] 2 S.C.R. 265
* "Attorney General of Nova Scotia v. MacIntyre ", [1982] 1 S.C.R. 175
* "Canada (Human Rights Commission) v. Taylor ", [1990] 3 S.C.R. 892
* "R. v. Keegstra ", [1990] 3 S.C.R. 697
* "R. v. Butler ", [1992] 1 S.C.R. 452
* "R. v. Zundel ", [1992] 2 S.C.R. 731
* "Ramsden v. Peterborough (City) ", [1993] 2 S.C.R. 1084
* "Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto ", [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1130
* "Ross v. New Brunswick School District No. 15 ", [1996] 1 S.C.R. 825
* "R. v. Lucas ", [1998] 1 S.C.R. 439
* "Thomson Newspapers Co. v. Canada (Attorney General) ", [1998] 1 S.C.R. 877
* "Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice) ", [2000] 2 S.C.R. 1120, 2000 SCC 69
* "R. v. Sharpe ", [2001] 1 S.C.R. 45, 2001 SCC 2
* "R. v. Bryan ", 2007 SCC 12ee also
*
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
*American Civil Liberties Union External links
* [http://www.ccla.org/ Official site]
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