Canadian Civil Liberties Association

Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Formation	1964
Headquarters	Toronto, Canada
Membership	6,500 members
Official languages	English
Website	http://www.ccla.org/

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association or CCLA, is a non-governmental organization in Canada that is devoted to the defense of civil liberties and civil rights.

The CCLA was founded in 1964 and is based in Toronto, Ontario. Its current president is Marsha Hanen, who is also a former president of the University of Winnipeg. Alan Borovoy has been the CCLA's general counsel since 1968.

The Association notably spoke out vigorously against the 1970 invocation of the War Measures Act by then Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau in response to the October Crisis in Quebec.

The CCLA's records are preserved at Library and Archives Canada.

[edit] Litigation

The CCLA has intervened in numerous cases before the Supreme Court of Canada, including:

Nova Scotia Board of Censors v. McNeil, [1976] 2 S.C.R. 265
Attorney General of Nova Scotia v. MacIntyre, [1982] 1 S.C.R. 175
Canada (Human Rights Commission) v. Taylor, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 892
R. v. Keegstra, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 697
R. v. Butler, [1992] 1 S.C.R. 452
R. v. Zundel, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 731
Ramsden v. Peterborough (City), [1993] 2 S.C.R. 1084
Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto, [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1130
Ross v. New Brunswick School District No. 15, [1996] 1 S.C.R. 825
R. v. Lucas, [1998] 1 S.C.R. 439
Thomson Newspapers Co. v. Canada (Attorney General), [1998] 1 S.C.R. 877
Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice), [2000] 2 S.C.R. 1120, 2000 SCC 69
R. v. Sharpe, [2001] 1 S.C.R. 45, 2001 SCC 2
R. v. Bryan, 2007 SCC 12

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