Senate urged to expand bill to clear more LGBTQ criminal convictions

Government legislation aiming to wipe historically unjust convictions is too narrow when it comes to the types of crimes for which LGTBQ Canadians are wrongly convicted, witnesses told the Senate as it started its study of the bill last week.

Tom Hooper, a historian of the bathhouse raids in Canada, says the prime minister’s November apology to the LGBTQ community was just ‘eloquent words’ unless Bill C-66 allows for the elimination of more historically unjust convictions. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHARELLE EVELYN

April 25, 2018

After getting rushed through the House, advocates are calling for the Senate to pump the brakes on the government’s bill wiping out historical unjust convictions and to broaden the legislation’s scope to add more offences that targeted the LGBTQ community. They say the bill, as drafted now, does...

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