The following section is a portal to the entire collection of primary documents on this site, most of which are saved as PDF files.
The following collection of position papers were produced by the Canadian Civil Liberties between 1968 and 1998.
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Documents relating to the defection of Igor Gouzenko, the RCMP investigation, the espionage commission, the spy trials, and the public...
Documents relating to Canadian human rights and civil liberties groups that were active from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Civil liberties...
A list of international human rights treaties, including a list of those rights listed in some of the key treaties. For a more detailed l...
Landmark court cases in Canada’s human rights history, including early human rights decisions in British Columbia to accompany the bo...
Few social movement organizations can equal the impact of the Jewish Labour Committee (JLC) in fighting discrimination. Such was its...
The RCMP's archival record on the security plan for the Montreal Olympics is approximately 50,000 pages. The following sample from...
Documents regarding the federal government’s use of the War Measures Act in 1970. It also gives materials relating to the response f...
The Special Joint Committee on the Constitution (1980-81) solicited feedback from Canadians about the government’s proposal to patriate t...
The State Funding for Social Movements project is a five-year study that examines (a) the history of state funding for social movements...
Major federal and provincial human rights statutes and international declarations.
This section provides links to past legislation...