Facts
This federal law made it an offence to transact business on Sundays
What is the Lord's Day Act?
The Court emphasized this key principle regarding freedom not to observe another religion's practices.
What is the principle that freedom of religion includes not only the freedom to practice one's religion, but also the freedom not to be forced to observe another religion's practices?
This was the main argument used by Big M Drug Mart against the Lord's Day Act's constitutionality
What is the argument that the Act infringed free expression under the charter by forcing individuals to observe a Christian Sabbath, regardless of the individual's faith?
This is the order in which the Court analyzes legislation's effect and purpose for constitutionality.
First, the purpose is assessed, and second, the effects of the law are considered?
This City--also known as the corporate law capital of North America--was the location of Big M Drug Mart
The Court cites this section of the Charter to say that the power to compel the observance of the day of rest preferred by one religion--on religious grounds--is not consistent with the preservation and enhancement of the multi-cultural heritage of Canada.
What is s. 27?
Which section of the Charter was implicated in the challenge?
What is section 2(a)?
A secularization of this aspect of the Lord's day Act was not sufficient to compensate for the religious purpose of the Act
What are the effects of the Act?
In deciding R v Big M, the Court made this decision.
What is the holding that the Lord's Day Act was unconstitutional?
This obiter statement sums up the Court's view on what freedom means in the context of Canada
What is the statement that "a truly free society is one which can accommodate a wide variety of beliefs, diversity of tastes and pursuits, customs and codes of conduct. A free society is one which aims at equality with respect to the enjoyment of fundamental freedoms and I say this without any reliance upon s. 15 of the Charter"?