The debate on Bill C-377 has moved to the Senate. As many Policy Note readers probably know, Bill C-377 would impose onerous and unfair financial and operational disclosure obligations on unions and other labour organizations, in the lofty name of “transparency and accountability,” but with the actual malicious aim of weakening Labour and publicizing the [...]
Jonathan Chapnick’s Blog Posts
Jonathan Chapnick is a lawyer at the Hospital Employees' Union and a CCPA-BC Research Associate. Views expressed are his own.
Thank you, Hugh Segal
February 21st, 2013 · Jonathan Chapnick · 3 Comments · Economy, Employment & labour, Human rights, Law & legal issues, Taxes
Tags: democracy·labour rights·Privacy·unions
Getting it Wrong For Seniors in British Columbia
September 27th, 2012 · Jonathan Chapnick · Comments Off · Employment & labour, Health care, Law & legal issues, Privatization, P3s & public services
Seniors and their families need and should have access to useful information when they are making critical decisions about residential care and throughout the period of residence in facilities. – BC Ombudsperson, The Best of Care: Getting It Right for Seniors in British Columbia (Part 1) Mass replacement of staff can occur when facility operators switch [...]
Tags: contracting out·health care·labour·privatization·seniors
Christy Clark, George Abbott – meet Jeffrey Moore
March 14th, 2012 · Jonathan Chapnick · 3 Comments · Children & youth, Education, Human rights, Law & legal issues
There’s a freight train heading for BC’s education system — and it’s not being driven by government or teachers. This train hit the tracks long before the current collective bargaining dispute. Its operator is an eight-year-old boy from North Vancouver, named Jeffrey Moore. With the support of his family, Jeffrey is driving a human rights [...]
“Mass staff replacements” in seniors’ care: impacts and solutions
February 16th, 2012 · Jonathan Chapnick · 1 Comment · Employment & labour, Health care
Deep in the second volume of the BC Ombudsperson’s recently-released second report on seniors’ care, is an interesting and important discussion about large-scale staff replacements and other substantial changes at residential care facilities. Under the current legislative framework governing most care facilities for seniors, a facility operator must notify its regional medical health officer four months [...]
Whatever happened to gender identity and expression?
February 5th, 2012 · Jonathan Chapnick · Comments Off · Human rights, Law & legal issues
A year ago this week, Bill C-389, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression), passed third reading in the House of Commons, receiving support from MPs from all political parties. So whatever happened to it? The private member’s bill, sponsored by former Burnaby-Douglas MP [...]
Tags: gender identity
