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The bill was introduced on 17 May 2016 by Justin Trudeau's Liberal government as Bill C-16 of the first session of the 42nd Parliament. [1] It passed in the House of Commons by 248–40 votes and in the Senate by 67–11 votes with three abstentions. [2] [3] The bill became law upon receiving royal assent on 19 June 2017, coming into force ...
In May 2016, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (C-16) was introduced to the House of Commons of Canada, to add and include "gender identity or expression" in the Canadian Human Rights Act. [78] In June 2017, the Parliament of Canada passed bill C-16 and received royal assent a week later. The law went into ...
In 2017, Canada passed Bill C-16 which formally recognized non-binary gender people and granted them protection under the law towards discrimination on the grounds of "gender identity" and "gender expression." [24]
In February 2017, Maxime Bernier, then candidate for leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, stated that he had shifted his position on Bill C-16, from support to opposition, after meeting with Peterson and discussing it. [135] Peterson's analysis of the bill was also frequently cited by senators who were opposed to its passage. [136]
Canadian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights are some of the most extensive in the world. [5] [6] [7] Same-sex sexual activity, in private between consenting adults, was decriminalized in Canada on June 27, 1969, when the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968–69 (also known as Bill C-150) was brought into force upon royal assent. [1]
The word transgender acquired its modern umbrella term meaning in the 1990s. [32] Health-practitioner manuals, professional journalistic style guides, and LGBT advocacy groups advise the adoption by others of the name and pronouns identified by the person in question, including present references to the transgender person's past. [33] [34]
An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (Bill C-16) [45] Passed: Passed: Signed Yes Belgium: July 2017: Gender identity law (abolishing sterilization) [46] [47] — Passed: Signed Yes Greece: December 2017 Gender identity law (abolishing sterilization) [48] [49] — 171 114 Signed Yes Pakistan: May 2018
[2] [12] A critic of Bill C-16 and "what he sees as an intolerant left-wing in higher education", according to The Globe and Mail, [4] Peterson was arguing against being legally compelled to use pronouns such as zie and zher or the singular they. He told Paikin that he was being asked "to use a certain set of words that I think are the ...