''Delisle v Canada (Deputy AG)'',

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2 SCR 989 is a Supreme Court of Canada decision on the

freedom of association Freedom of association encompasses both an individual's right to join or leave groups voluntarily, the right of the group to take collective action to pursue the interests of its members, and the right of an association to accept or decline mem ...

guarantee under section 2(d) of the ''

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms The ''Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms'' (french: Charte canadienne des droits et libertés), often simply referred to as the ''Charter'' in Canada, is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada, forming the first part ...

''. The Court defined the freedom as only applying to individuals and not associations themselves. Accordingly, they found the exclusion of the

Royal Canadian Mounted Police The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; french: Gendarmerie royale du Canada; french: GRC, label=none), commonly known in English as the Mounties (and colloquially in French as ) is the federal police, federal and national police service of ...

(RCMP) from the public services legislation did not violate section 2(d). Gaétan Delisle was a member of the RCMP and president of an RCMP labour association. He brought a challenge to the federal ''Public Service Staff Relations Act'' (PSSRA) and part of the '' Canada Labour Code'' on the grounds it violated his right to association. Bastarache J, writing for the majority, held that the PSSRA did not violate the ''Charter'' because it did not affect members of the RCMP from forming their own independent associations. He further ruled that, "The fundamental freedoms protected by s. 2 of the Charter do not impose a positive obligation of protection or inclusion on Parliament or the government, except perhaps in exceptional circumstances which are not at issue here."para. 33 Note that much of this case has been overruled b
Health Services v BC (2007)

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* {{lexum-scc2, 1999, 2, 989, 649 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms case law Supreme Court of Canada cases 1999 in Canadian case law

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