M-182 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

That, in the opinion of the House, the government should proclaim 2012, the 30th anniversary of the enactment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as the Year of the Charter and should: (a) reaffirm Canada’s fundamental freedoms of conscience, religion, thought, belief, opinion, expression, peaceful assembly and association; (b) celebrate Canada’s democratic and mobility rights; (c) protect Canada’s foundational rights to life, liberty and security of the person, and its many legal rights; (d) bring war criminals to justice according to the general principles of law recognized by the community of nations; (e) promote Canadians’ right to equality and Canada’s prohibition of all forms of discrimination; (f) recommit to the protection of minority language rights; (g) respect the constitutional and legal status of Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples; and (h) restore the court challenges program.