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RIDR - Standing Committee

Human Rights

Meeting Detail

Videoconference
Televised live on PTN
Thursday, May 28, 2026
2:02 p.m. ET
Location: Room W120, 1 Wellington St., Ottawa ON, with videoconference
Clerk: Caroline Woodward (343) 597-0602
Bill C-9, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places)
Witnesses
  • Julia Beazley, Director (The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada's Centre for Faith and Public Life)
  • Lisa Bildy, Lawyer and Executive Director (Free Speech Union of Canada)
  • Nazila Ghanea, Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief (United Nations)
  • Philip Horgan, President and General Counsel (Catholic Civil Rights League)
  • Mark Joseph, Director of Litigation (The Democracy Fund)
  • James Manson, Senior Lawyer (Charter Advocates Canada)
  • Joseph Wesley Richards II, Vice-president and General Counsel (Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada)
  • Terry Teegee, Regional Chief (British Columbia Assembly of First Nations)
  • Deina Warren, Director of Legal Affairs (Canadian Centre for Christian Charities)
Meeting with interpretation and transcription
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