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Chamberlain v. Surrey District School Board No. 36

Supreme Court of Canada
Hearing: June 12, 2002
Judgment: December 20, 2002
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Citations: [2002] 4 S. The Supreme Court of Canada ( French: Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeal in the Canadian C. R. 710, 2002 SCC 86
Docket No. : 28654
Court membership

Chief Justice: Beverley McLachlin
Puisne Justices: Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Charles Gonthier, Frank Iacobucci, John C. Major, Michel Bastarache, Ian Binnie, Louise Arbour, Louis LeBel
Reasons given

Majority by: McLachlin C. Beverley McLachlin PC (born September 7, 1943) is the Chief Justice of Canada, the first woman to hold that position Claire L'Heureux-Dubé (born September 7, 1927) served as a justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1987 to 2002 Charles Doherty Gonthier, CC, BA, BCL ( August 1, 1928) was a Puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Canada from Frank Iacobucci, CC (born January 29 1937) was a Puisne Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1991 to 2004 when he retired from John Charles Major CC (born February 20 1931) is a Canadian Jurist and was a Puisne justice on the Supreme Court J E Michel Bastarache (born June 10, 1947) is a Canadian lawyer businessman and retired Puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada William Ian Corneil Binnie (born April 14, 1939) is a Puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada. Louise Arbour, CC (born February 10, 1947) is the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Louis LeBel (born November 30, 1939) is a Puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada. J.
Joined by: L’Heureux‑Dubé, Iacobucci, Major, Binnie and Arbour JJ.
Concurrence by: LeBel J.
Dissent by: Gonthier J.
Joined by: Bastarache J.

Chamberlain v. Surrey District School Board No. 36, [2002] 4 S. C. R. 710, 2002 SCC 86, was a case in which the Supreme Court of Canada held that a local school board could not impose its religious values by refusing to permit the use of books that sought to promote tolerance of same-sex relationships. The Supreme Court of Canada ( French: Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeal in the Canadian A board of education or a school Board or school committee is the title of the Board of directors of a school local School district A Book is a set or collection of written printed illustrated or blank sheets made of Paper, Parchment, or other material usually fastened together

Background

In 1997, James Chamberlain, a primary school teacher in Surrey, British Columbia, sought permission from School District 36 Surrey to use three books in his kindergarten and first grade classes. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar See also Primary education A primary school (from French école primaire) is an institution where children receive the first stage of Compulsory In Education, a teacher is one who helps Students or pupils often in a School, as well as in a Family, religious or Surrey is a Canadian city in the Province of British Columbia that lies within the Metro Vancouver School District 36 Surrey operates schools in Surrey, White Rock, and Barnston Island, British Columbia. ( German, literally means "children's garden" is a form of education for young children which serves as a transition from home to the commencement of more formal schooling First grade (called Grade 1 in some regions is a year of Education in the United States and other nations The books were Asha's Mums, Belinda's Bouquet and One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dads, Blue Dads, and each presented families where both parents were of the same sex. Chamberlain asserted that the books were necessary to reflect the realities of today's families and to teach his pupils about diversity and tolerance. The term multiculturalism generally refers to a state of racial, cultural and ethnic diversity within the Demographics of a specified At the time, the board included chair Mary Polak, and trustees Heather Stilwell, Robert Pickering, Gary Tymoschuk, Laurae McNally, Ken Hoffman, and Jim Chisholm. Mary Polak is the former chair of the Surrey School Board in Surrey, British Columbia and is now a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Heather Stilwell is a school trustee in Surrey, British Columbia. A 4-2 majority voted to deny the requested approval.

Opinion of the Court

A legal battle to overturn the decision to ban the three books went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, where the school board's decision at the British Columbia Court of Appeal was overturned in favour of the original lower court judgment. BCCA redirects here It can also refer to the British Cyclo-Cross Association or the BC Cancer Agency. The judgment cited the need for families headed by same-sex couples to be respected. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin dismissed the board's concerns that children would be confused or misled by classroom information about same-sex parents. The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English Beverley McLachlin PC (born September 7, 1943) is the Chief Justice of Canada, the first woman to hold that position She pointed out that the children of same-sex parents are rubbing shoulders with children from more traditional families and wrote: "Tolerance is always age-appropriate, children cannot learn unless they are exposed to views that differ from those they are taught at home. " The legal fees ended up costing Surrey taxpayers over $1,200,000.

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