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Canadian Civil Liberties Association

Infobox_Organization
name = Canadian Civil Liberties Association

caption = CCLA logo
membership = 6,500 members
language = English
headquarters =

Toronto, Canada
formation = 1964
website = http://www.ccla.org/

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association or CCLA, is a non-governmental organization in Canada that is devoted to the defense of civil liberties and civil rights.

The CCLA was founded in 1964 and is based in Toronto, Ontario. Its current president is Marsha Hanen, who is also a former president of the University of Winnipeg. Alan Borovoy has been the CCLA's general counsel since 1968.

The Association notably spoke out vigorously against the 1970 invocation of the War Measures Act by then Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau in response to the October Crisis in Quebec.

The CCLA's records are preserved at Library and Archives Canada.

Litigation

upreme Court of Canada

The CCLA has intervened in numerous cases before the Supreme Court of Canada, including:

* "Nova Scotia Board of Censors v. McNeil", [1976] 2 S.C.R. 265
* "Attorney General of Nova Scotia v. MacIntyre", [1982] 1 S.C.R. 175
* "Canada (Human Rights Commission) v. Taylor", [1990] 3 S.C.R. 892
* "R. v. Keegstra", [1990] 3 S.C.R. 697
* "R. v. Butler", [1992] 1 S.C.R. 452
* "R. v. Zundel", [1992] 2 S.C.R. 731
* "Ramsden v. Peterborough (City)", [1993] 2 S.C.R. 1084
* "Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto", [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1130
* "Ross v. New Brunswick School District No. 15", [1996] 1 S.C.R. 825
* "R. v. Lucas", [1998] 1 S.C.R. 439
* "Thomson Newspapers Co. v. Canada (Attorney General)", [1998] 1 S.C.R. 877
* "Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice)", [2000] 2 S.C.R. 1120, 2000 SCC 69
* "R. v. Sharpe", [2001] 1 S.C.R. 45, 2001 SCC 2
* "R. v. Bryan", 2007 SCC 12

ee also

* British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
* American Civil Liberties Union

External links

* [http://www.ccla.org/ Official site]

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