Bill C-537

SUMMARY

This enactment establishes a requirement for the review of all bills introduced in the Senate or the House of Commons to ensure that they are not inconsistent with the purposes and provisions of the Canadian Bill of Rights and the Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1982, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Inconsistency would be determined by the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel of the relevant House if it is the opinion of the Law Clerk that, were that provision to be challenged in court, it would, on the balance of probabilities, be found to infringe, limit or violate the purposes or provisions of any of those statutes.