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Article: "Section 28 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: A Purposive Interpretation.".(WOMEN AND THE LAW/FEMME ET DROIT)(Brief article)
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- Resources for Feminist Research
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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This article examines concerns about section 28 by posing three questions: Why was section 28 added to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? What are the traditional features of section 28 analysis? And, what does a purposive interpretation of section 28 reveal? The responses reveal that its feminist framers intended section 28 to be rights bearing; that ...