S.C.C. File No. 39749 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA

The purpose of the CCLA’s work is the maintenance of a free and democratic society in Canada, which requires, among other things, the promotion and protection of the Charter rights of all citizens, and the rigorous observance and discharge by the Canadian government of its Charter obligations. [...] A.), in which one of the issues was whether the provision in the Criminal Code for the detention of an accused acquitted by reason of insanity violated guarantees in the Canadian Bill of Rights, including the guarantee of due process and the protection against arbitrary detention and imprisonment (the CCLA intervened in the Ontario Court of Appeal); 7. [...] 577, in which one of the issues was whether the rape shield provisions of the Criminal Code violated the Charter guarantee of a fair trial (the CCLA intervened in the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada of Canada); 25. [...] 668, in which the central issue was the appropriate balance to be struck between the rights of the accused and the rights of complainants and witnesses with respect to the production of medical and therapeutic records (the CCLA intervened in the Supreme Court of Canada); 42. [...] A.), in which one of the issues was the extent to which the values underlying the common law tort of defamation must give way to the Charter values underlying freedom of expression, especially where a claimant who asserts the former at the expense of the latter freely enters the public arena (the CCLA intervened in the New Brunswick Court of Appeal); 54.