RIDR - Standing Committee

Human Rights

45-1 45th Parliament, 1st Session (May 26, 2025 - Present)
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Notice of Meeting
Videoconference
Televised live on PTN
Thursday, May 28, 2026
2:00 p.m. ET
Location: Room W120, 1 Wellington St., Ottawa ON, with videoconference
Clerk: Caroline Woodward (343) 597-0602

* Agenda

Bill C-9, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places)
Witnesses

Panel 1 (2 p.m. - 3 p.m.)
British Columbia Assembly of First Nations
-Terry Teegee, Regional Chief (by videoconference)
United Nations
-Nazila Ghanea, Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief (by videoconference)
Panel 2 (3 p.m. - 4 p.m.)
The Democracy Fund
-Mark Joseph, Director of Litigation
Free Speech Union of Canada
-Lisa Bildy, Lawyer and Executive Director
Charter Advocates Canada
-James Manson, Senior Lawyer
Panel 3 (4 p.m. - 5 p.m.)
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada's Centre for Faith and Public Life
-Julia Beazley, Director
Canadian Centre for Christian Charities
-Deina Warren, Director of Legal Affairs
Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada
-Joseph Wesley Richards II, Vice-president and General Counsel
Catholic Civil Rights League
-Philip Horgan, President and General Counsel (by videoconference)
Meeting with interpretation and transcription
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