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On April 29, 1996 Allan Rock, the then Minister of Justice and member of the governing Liberal Party, introduced Bill C-33, an act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act, to the 35th Parliament (House of Commons Debates1, 1996, p. 2070)2. Bill C-33 was designed to include sexual orientation as a prohibited ground of discrimination in areas covered by federal jurisdiction (Chotalia, 1997, xlvii). The bill passed after third reading on May 9, 1996 (Debates, 1996, p. 2569) and was finally assented to on June 20, 1996 (Statutes of Canada 1996, chap. 14).
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de Silva, A. (2002). Normalizing Heterosexuality in the 1996 House of Commons Debate on Bill C-33. In: Härtel, I., Schade, S. (eds) Body and Representation. Schriftenreihe der Internationalen Frauenuniversität »Technik und Kultur«, vol 6. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11622-6_2
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