Svend Robinson talks about the different groups that made presentations to the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution in 1980-81. He mentioned the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the National Association of Japanese Canadians, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, the Indian, Inuit and Métis National Organizations and the Canadian National Institute of the Blind.
Choose one group and explore what is the mandate of the group. Why would the group want to present before the Committee? How do their ideals match with what the Charter stands for?
Mr. Robinson's list does not represent every group that presented. What groups do you think should be included that he did not mention? Why?
If you were invited to make a presentation representing a group, what group would it be? What would you have said?
