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Singh to Suresh: Non-Citizens, The Canadian Courts and Human Rights Obligations
Singh to Suresh NonCitizens The Canadian Courts and Human Rights Obligations Author:Tom Clark Everyone under Canada's jurisdiction is to benefit from the international human rights treaties that Canada has ratified. Courts are to protect individuals from acts of the authorities that might violate their fundamental rights. This is the promise made by ratifying the treaties. Since 1985, a gap has grown between the Canadian courts' rulings ... more »on rights matters for non-citizens and the international human right obligations as confirmed by the views of the committees that are built into the human rights treatis. This book develops a test from international human rights obligations and uses the test as a tool to analyze a sequence of Supreme Court and other cases from Singh in 1985 to Suresh in 2002 and beyond. For each Canadian case, the author draws on corresponding international human rights jurispurdence and case law. The author adds his own experience with interventions before the Court in these cases and offers some personal ideas. He concludes that additional legislative measures are needed if the gap with international human rights obligations is to be closed so that everyone in Canada might enjoy the international treaty rights promised them.« less