The Emergencies Act, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and International Law : the protection of human rights in states of emergency
Annemieke E. Holthuis (Author)
Many states are confronted with emergencies, some of which threaten their very existence. Since Confederation, Canada has survived two World Wars, the October Crisis of 1970, and more recently the Oka crisis. Emergencies often require a governemnt to rely on measures which alter the normal constitutional allocation of power within the state. They may also require that states temporarily infringe or deny individual rights and freedoms. State parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, like Canada, acknowledge this necessity in the derogation clause of the ICCPR, art. 4. Yet the ICCPR places limits on the manner in which states may infringe or deny rights and freedoms. [...]
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 1991
McGill University, [Montreal, Québec], 1991