Why 8850 Form Legislation 2016-2023

Music good afternoon and welcome colleagues invited guests members of the general public who are following today's proceedings of the standing Senate Committee on legal and constitutional affairs today we continue our consideration of bill C 16 an act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code with this our last day of hearings on the bill we will move to clause by clause consideration tomorrow with us today for the first hour our Jordan B Peterson professor psychology department at the University of Toronto from the D Jared brown professional corporation the Jerry Brown lead counsel thank you gentlemen for being here you both have up to five minutes for opening statements and mr. Peterson I believe you're going to leave up yes sir before today so I think the first thing I'd like to bring up is that it's not obvious when considering a matter of this sort what level of analysis is appropriate if you're reading any given document you can look at the words or the phrases or the sentences or the complete document or you can look at the broader context within which it is likely to be interpreted and when I first encountered bill C 16 and its surrounding policies it seemed to me that the appropriate level of analysis was to look at the context of interpretation surrounding the bill which is what I did when I went and scoured the Ontario Human Rights Commission webpages and examined its policies I did that because at that point the Department of Justice had clearly indicated on their website in a link that was later taken down that bill C 16 would be interpreted in within the president's policy precedents already established by the Ontario Human Rights Commission so when I looked...