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EDMONTON – An Edmonton city council committee voted unanimously Wednesday to move forward with an official ban on conversion therapy.
Conversion therapy is a practice that attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counselling or electroshock therapy.
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EDMONTON – An Edmonton city council committee voted unanimously Wednesday to move forward with an official ban on conversion therapy. Conversion therapy is a practice that attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counselling or electroshock therapy.
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Jul 10, 2019 This is what is coming the change to the Criminal Code to ban conversion Therapy! Trudeau has sent a mandate to his justice minister to get this changed ASAP
However, according to a letter sent in June to Alberta's Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer, the federal government is now looking at ways to reform the Criminal Code in order to "combat conversion therapy."
The letter, signed by federal Justice Minister David Lametti, Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor and Edmonton Centre MP Randy Boissonnault, special adviser on LGBT issues to the prime minister, provides few details on what legal remedies are being considered. Instead, it says the government is looking at Criminal Code reforms to "better prevent, punish, and deter this discredited and dangerous practice."
Limit harm
Health organizations, including the Canadian Psychological Association, have dismissed the treatment, saying it has no efficacy. They have also warned that the effects of such therapy can be harmful, resulting in distress, anxiety, self-harm and suicide.
Parliament does have the power to determine something is harmful, and, as a general rule, can seek to limit that harm from occurring, Mathen said.
And courts have generally given the government a fairly wide berth and broad latitude to decide what is harmful, she noted. But when it comes to something like conversion therapy, or the act of counselling, as opposed to the administration of a potentially harmful remedy like a drug, the federal government could run into a couple of hurdles.
Minister of Justice David Lametti has indicated the government is looking at Criminal Code reforms to 'better prevent, punish, and deter' conversion therapy. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
One key question, Mathen said, will be: "How do you define when therapy crosses the line?"
If the government changes the code, Mathen said someone who administers conversion therapy but is prevented from doing so could launch a challenge under Section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, arguing their freedom of expression is being violated.
And once the government uses criminal law power, with, presumably, some potential jail sentence, that could trigger Section 7 of the charter that protects people from deprivation of liberty, she said.
"You're facing a potential Section 7 challenge on the basis that the law is just too blunt a tool and you're putting people at risk of imprisonment in ways that are fundamentally unfair."
A number of provinces have enacted laws to restrict conversion therapy. In 2015, for example, Ontario passed its own law to ban conversion therapy but it was limited in scope. It made it illegal for health professionals to provide conversion therapy and it applied to minors.
But conversion therapy itself is not banned outright. This means that some faith-based communities that view homosexuality as a sin are free to practise the therapy in Canada.
Freedom of religion
Daniel Lerner, a Toronto-based defence lawyer who was a former Ontario Crown prosecutor, said individuals who seek out the therapy could potentially challenge any government under Section 2 of the charter, with a freedom of religion argument.
"I can see somebody making a freedom of religion argument that my religion requires me to have this conversion. And you're preventing me from exercising my religion."
Under Section 7, an individual could also argue that they believe their security of the person requires them to undergo conversion therapy and the government is depriving them of that service.
Sen. Serge Joyal introduced his own bill in April in an attempt to curtail conversion therapy. (Government of Canada website)
Still, Lerner believes that despite any charter challenges, the government would likely prevail.
"Certainly the government does put in laws that they believe [are] to save people from themselves," he said.
"There's just such a strong medical consensus out there about conversion therapy. You can objectively point to the dangers of it."
Sen. Serge Joyal, chair of the legal and constitutional affairs Senate committee, introduced his own bill in April in an attempt to curtail conversion therapy. His bill would criminalize anyone who advertises to provide conversion therapy or "receives a financial or other material benefit from providing conversion therapy to minors."
Concerned his bill would face freedom of religion issues, Joyal said he crafted his legislation to be similar to the new prostitution laws of 2014 after the Supreme Court struck down Canada's prostitution laws.
"I said to myself if that is the context into which prostitution is regulated, we could do the same with conversion therapy and we would not run the risk of facing a charter issue."
But the prostitution law has also faced a court challenge, with lawyers representing two London, Ont., escort agency owners arguing that law violates the charter for sex workers by not ensuring their "security of the person."
It's not yet clear how that challenge will be decided.
Nor is it clear how Joyal's bill will fare, or what steps the federal government, which has risen for the summer, might take to move forward any legislation around conversion therapy.
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Bill C-16 (Historical)
An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code
This bill was last introduced in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session, which ended in September 2019.
Sponsor
Jody Wilson-Raybould Liberal
Status
This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.
Summary
This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament often publishes better independent summaries.
This enactment amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination.
The enactment also amends the Criminal Code to extend the protection against hate propaganda set out in that Act to any section of the public that is distinguished by gender identity or expression and to clearly set out that evidence that an offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on gender identity or expression constitutes an aggravating circumstance that a court must take into consideration when it imposes a sentence.
Elsewhere
All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, provided by the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.
Votes
Oct. 18, 2016 Passed That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
Equality Rights for Transgender Individuals in Canada
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Introduction The most recent personal attributes added to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination in Canadian human rights are “gender identity” and “gender expression.” This is generally viewed as facilitating gender diversity and, in particular, establishing legal rights and protections for transgender persons, who are also described as gender non-conforming. Alberta is the ...
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