{"id":16799,"date":"2018-05-01T14:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T18:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=16799"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:16:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:16:16","slug":"a-flawed-breach-of-justice-bill-c-66","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/a-flawed-breach-of-justice-bill-c-66\/","title":{"rendered":"A flawed breach of justice: Bill C-66"},"content":{"rendered":"Bill C-66, A<em>n Act to establish a procedure for expunging certain historically unjust convictions and to make related amendments to other Acts<\/em>, is a long-overdue effort by the Government of Canada to correct the historical, systemic oppression of gender and sexual minorities. In its current form, Bill C-66 is fundamentally flawed. This bill was drafted and passed by the House of Commons without consultation with LGBTQI2S+ communities\u2014the very people it is ostensibly meant to assist. Despite warnings to this effect, the Senate seems determined to adopt this bill without proposing critical amendments.<\/p>\n<p>When the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights continues its review of the bill on Wednesday, May 2, we, the undersigned members and organizations of the LGBTQI2S+ community, urge the Senate to introduce amendments to the bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Bill-c-66_FINAL_EN-2.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/16813\/?tmstv=1775735374\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill C-66, An Act to establish a procedure for expunging certain historically unjust convictions and to make related amendments to other Acts, is a long-overdue effort by the Government of Canada to correct the historical, systemic oppression of gender and sexual minorities. In its current form, Bill C-66 is fundamentally flawed. This bill was drafted &#8230; <a title=\"A flawed breach of justice: Bill C-66\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/a-flawed-breach-of-justice-bill-c-66\/\" aria-label=\"More on A flawed breach of justice: Bill C-66\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[153,146],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-16799","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-lgbtq-rights","publication_topics-discrimination","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16815,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16799\/revisions\/16815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=16799"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=16799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}