Charter Statements: Bill C-16: An act to amend the Canadian human rights Act and the Criminal Code

The Department of Justice has prepared this "Statement of Potential Charter Impacts" to help inform public and Parliamentary debate on Bill C-16, An Act to Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code. The Statement is also intended to promote greater transparency and understanding of the Minister of Justice's role in examining legislation for consistency with Canada's Constitution.

The Statement identifies potential rationales for any limits on rights and freedoms the Bill may impose. It is important to note that the Charter is not violated every time legislation impacts on or limits a right or freedom. It is only violated where a limit is not so demonstrably justifiable as reasonable and proportional in a free and democratic society.

The Statement is intended to provide legal information to the public. It is NOT intended to be a comprehensive overview of potential impacts, recognizing that the Bill may change over the course of its passage through Parliament. Additional considerations relevant to the constitutionality of the Bill may also arise in the course of Parliamentary study. The Statement is not a legal opinion on the constitutionality of the Bill.

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• 42nd Parliament 1st Session
• Access to Information
• Canadas System of Justice
• Charter Statements
• Charter of Rights...
• Department of Justice
• Government and Politics
• Justice Canada Publications
• Law
• Persons
• Processes
• Society and Culture

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Last Updated	October 20, 2025, 03:15 (UTC)
Created	October 20, 2025, 03:15 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	Charter Statements: Bill C-16: An act to amend the Canadian human rights Act and the Criminal Code
Description A description of the dataset.	The Department of Justice has prepared this "Statement of Potential Charter Impacts" to help inform public and Parliamentary debate on Bill C-16, An Act to Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code. The Statement is also intended to promote greater transparency and understanding of the Minister of Justice's role in examining legislation for consistency with Canada's Constitution. The Statement identifies potential rationales for any limits on rights and freedoms the Bill may impose. It is important to note that the Charter is not violated every time legislation impacts on or limits a right or freedom. It is only violated where a limit is not so demonstrably justifiable as reasonable and proportional in a free and democratic society. The Statement is intended to provide legal information to the public. It is NOT intended to be a comprehensive overview of potential impacts, recognizing that the Bill may change over the course of its passage through Parliament. Additional considerations relevant to the constitutionality of the Bill may also arise in the course of Parliamentary study. The Statement is not a legal opinion on the constitutionality of the Bill.
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	42nd Parliament 1st Session Access to Information Canadas System of Justice Charter Statements Charter of Rights... Department of Justice Government and Politics Justice Canada Publications Law Persons Processes Society and Culture
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2016-10-18
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

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Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
License License used to access the dataset.	Open Government Licence - Canada
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/36836af3-8ef6-4c31-b7fd-add8f1e9ab2e
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	Department of Justice Canada | Ministère de la Justice Canada
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.	[email protected]
Author Author of the dataset.
Author Email Email of the author.
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.

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Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language Language(s) of the dataset
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

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Source Source of the dataset.	None
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Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
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GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

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Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

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Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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