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The role was created in 1867 to replace the attorney general of Canada West and attorney general of Canada East. As the top prosecuting officer in Canada, 'attorney general' is a separate title held by the minister of justice—a member of the Cabinet. The minister of justice is concerned with questions of policy and their relationship to the ...
Bliss v Canada (AG) [1979] 1 S.C.R. 183 is a famous Supreme Court of Canada decision on equality rights for women under the Canadian Bill of Rights.The Court held that women were not entitled to benefits denied to them by the Unemployment Insurance Act during a certain period of pregnancy.
The department's responsibilities reflect the double role of the Minister of Justice, who is also by law the Attorney General of Canada: in general terms, the Minister is concerned with the administration of justice, including policy in such areas as criminal law, family law, human rights law, and Aboriginal justice; the Attorney General is the ...
Dozens of women have accused Nygard of varying degrees of criminal behavior over a 25-year period. ... The attorney general’s team countered that with properties in the U.S., Canada and the ...
Edwards v Canada (AG), also known as the Persons Case (French: l'Affaire « personne »), is a Canadian constitutional case that decided in 1929 that women were eligible to sit in the Senate of Canada.
Jeanne Sauvé was the first female governor general of Canada, appointed in 1984. Four other women have since been governor general: Adrienne Clarkson, Michaëlle Jean, Julie Payette and Mary Simon. The first female lieutenant governor was Pauline McGibbon, appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ontario in 1974. Since then, all ten provinces have had ...
Contemporary obituaries mourned her loss as a trailblazer for professional women. [1] In 1989, the provincial government announced that Martin was to be honoured by having the building housing the Ministry of the Attorney General named after her. The government revoked the honour after an anti-Semitic letter written by her in 1915 came to light ...
In his memoirs, Jean Chrétien, Attorney General of Canada during the Charter negotiations, stated that the dilution was not very problematic because he expected women's protests would convince Saskatchewan to drop the issue. [10] This is indeed what happened; one of the most vocal leaders of the protest against Blakeney's move was Anderson. [11]