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Annual Report 2022-2023 03 Canadian Constitution Foundation O U R M A N D A T E INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS (Section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms): Freedom of conscience and religion Freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression Freedom of peaceful assembly Freedom of association LIBERTY (Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms): The right to life, liberty and security of the pers. [...] This year’s sold-out conference was attended by over 200 lawyers, law students, and law professors, and included panels and sessions on: the official inquiry into the 2022 invocation of the Emergencies Act; the role of international law in Canadian courts; the state of academic freedom at Canadian universities; and the interpretation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. [...] Included in this three- the drafting and legislative history of the various volume set, for the first time in one location, is sections of Canada’s Constitution, whether it be the complete record of all the debates on the Constitution Act, 1867 or the Constitution Confederation that took place in the parliament Act, 1982. [...] This year, our team has worked hard to of the Province of Canada in the period between put together a section report for every section of the drafting of the Quebec Resolutions in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. [...] The addition to drafting history, there are a present volume includes, in addition, debates substantial amount of reports that contain the from the summer of 1865 and from 1866 that are legislative history of the clause—meaning the necessary for a full understanding of the debates in the House of Commons, in development of the British North America Act.