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- Title: An Exemption for Sincere Believers: The Challenge of Alberta V. Hutterian Brethren of Wilson Colony.
- Author : McGill Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 325 KB
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In Alberta v. Hutterian Brethren of Wilson Colony, the Supreme Court of Canada reconfigured its approach to section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms by holding that the final step of the R. v. Oakes test--the requirement of proportionality between a measure's salutary and deleterious effect--provided the critical framework for its analysis. The author suggests that the Court's emphasis on the last step of the Ookes test was hot the most appropriate response to the specific minimal impairment argument Alberta presented. Alberta argued that the reason it could not safely offer an exemption from its licence photo requirement to Hutterites who objected to photos on religious grounds was because Syndicat Northcrest v. Amselem restricted government inquiries into the sincerity of religious beliefs. Ontario intervened in support of Alberta's concerns. Although the Court did not address this minimal impairment argument, the author argues that it reflects an unnecessarily strict reading of how Amselem's guidelines would apply in this context. In support, the author presents an exemption that would have cohered with Amselem and achieved Alberta's safety objectives. The author then argues more broadly that the provinces' concerns in Hutterian Brethren demonstrate the critical role the minimal impairment step of the Oakes test plays in generating solutions to clashes between laws of general application taxi minority religious practices. The Courts new emphasis on the proportionate effects test, in contrast, may unfortunately discourage both parties from formulating potentially innovative alternatives. Dans l'affaire Alberta c. Hutterian Brethren of Wilson Colony, la Cour supreme du Canada a reconfigure son approche quant a l'article 1 de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertes en statuant que la derniere etape du critere etabli dans R. c. Oakes (soit la condition de preportionnalite entre les effets salutaires et deleteres d'une mesure) formait le cadre essentiel de son analyse. L'auteure suggere que l'accent mis par la coin" sur cette deniere etape du critere Oakes ne representait pas la meilleure reponse aux arguments specifiques avances par l'Alberta en matiere d'atteinte mnimale. L'Alberta soutenait que la province ne pouvait exempter les hutterites de l'exigence de prise de photo de permis, meme s'ils s'y opposaient pour des motifs religieux. La province justifiait cette position a la lumiere de son interpretation de la decision Syndicat Northcrest c. Amselem, selon laquelle les gouvernements ne pouvaient enqueter sur la sincerite des croyances religieuses. L'Ontario, en tant qu'intervenant, a appuye les arguments de l'Alberta. Bien que la cour n'ait pas aborde l'anlyse de l'atteinte minimale, l'auteture suggere que les provinces ont interprete Amselem de facon inutilement stricte. L'auteure propose ainsi une exemption qui adhere aux criteres d'Amselem tout en remplissant les objectifs de l'Alberta en matiere de securite. De facon plus generale, l'auteure stipule que la preoccupation des provinces dans Hutterian Brethren demontre le role critique que joue le critere de l'atteinte minimale dans Oakes pour generer des solutions aux conflits entre les lois d'application generale et les pratiques religieuses minoritaires. Par contraste, l'accent mis par la cour sur le critere des effets pmportionnels pourrait malheureusement decourager les parties de formuler des alternatives potentiellement novatrices.
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