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Summary of Fixed Election Date Court Case
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Set out below are documents
about Democracy
Watch's court case challenging Prime Minister Stephen Harper's
arbitrary election call
(in reverse chronological order)
The case was filed in the Federal Court of Canada in
September 2008 as part of Democracy
Watch's Voter Rights Campaign, and
as the first case on this issue in the world, the case will also effect
fixed-election-date laws in 6 provinces and the Northwest Territories,
and similar
laws in parliamentary democracies worldwide:
- NEWS RELEASE: Federal Court of Appeal Ruling Means
Harper Conservatives Broke Their 2006 Election Promise to Fix Election
Dates -- Democracy Watch Will
Apply For Leave to Appeal to Supreme Court of Canada
(May 26, 2010) JOIN Facebook
Group To Protest Another Snap Federal Election
- NEWS RELEASE: Democracy
Watch
in Court Today -- Appealing Federal Court Ruling That Legalized
Conservative Prime Minister Harper's September 2008 Snap Federal
Election Call Despite Fixed-Election-Date Law (May 25, 2010) NOTE:
Covered by 40 media outlets across Canada
- MEDIA ALERT: May
25th Hearing of Appeal of Federal Court Ruling That Legalized
Conservative Prime Minister Harper's September 2008 Snap Federal
Election Call Despite Fixed-Election-Date Law (May 19, 2010 -- To see related Canoe.ca article
(published by 5 SunMedia newspapers across Canada), click
here
- NEWS RELEASE: Democracy
Watch
Appeals
Federal
Court
Ruling
That
Legalized
Conservative
Prime
Minister Harper's September 2008 Snap Federal Election Call Despite
Fixed-Election-Date Law -- Case Will Be Heard By Federal Court
of Appeal on May 25, 2010 -- Group Calls on PM Harper To Promise
Not To Call Another Snap Election (March 10, 2010)
- NEWS RELEASE: Democracy
Watch
Appeals
Federal
Court
Ruling
That
Legalized
Conservative
Prime
Minister
Harper's September 2008 Snap Federal Election Call Despite
Fixed-Election-Date Law -- Group Calls on Prime Minister to Promise Not
Call Another Snap Election -- Will Seek Quick Hearing If Needed to
Prevent
Another Snap Election Call,
and
Has
Created
a
Facebook
Group
To
Protest
Another
Snap
Federal Election
(January 13, 2010)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: Court
ruling
means
Conservatives
misled
Parliament
and
broke
their
2006
election
promise to pass a law fixing the dates of federal elections
-- Democracy Watch will appeal (CTV.ca and 23 other media
outlets across Canada (all publishing Canadian Press wire article),
September 17, 2009) -- To see
the Federal Court ruling, click
here
- NEWS RELEASE: Federal
Court
Hears
Challenge
Today
of
Legality
of
Conservative
Prime
Minister
Harper's September 2008 Federal Election Call -- World's
First
Court
Challenge
of
Fixed-Election-Date
Law
Will
Determine
Effect
of
Similar Laws in Six
Provinces
and the Northwest Territories, and in Other Parliamentary Democracies
(September 8, 2009)
- TV INTERVIEW: Duff
Conacher
on
CBC
Newsworld's
afternoon
show
about
Democracy
Watch's
court
challenge of Prime Minister Harper's 2008 election call
(September 8, 2009)
- TV INTERVIEW: Duff
Conacher
on
CTV
Newsnet
about
court
challenge
of
Prime
Minister
Harper's 2008 election call (September 8, 2009)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: Democracy
Watch
challenges
Prime
Minister
Harper's
2008
election
call
in
Federal
Court as a violation of fixed-election-date law (Canada.com,
GlobalTV.com, National Post
and 10 CanWest News Service newspapers, September 8, 2009)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: Democracy
Watch
challenges
Prime
Minister
Harper's
2008
election
call
in
Federal
Court as a violation of fixed-election-date law (Canoe.ca and 24
SunMedia newspapers, September 8, 2009)
- NEWS RELEASE: Federal
Court Will Hear Challenge of Legality of Prime Minister's September
2008 Federal Election Call on September 8, 2009 -- Democracy Watch Prepared to File Another Court
Challenge if Prime Minister Tries Calling Another Snap Election This
Summer (June 23, 2009) -- To see CP article about news release
(published by 9 media outlets across Canada) on CTV.ca, click
here
- NEWS RELEASE: Ruling
on Motion Means Court Challenge of Legality of Prime Minister's Federal
Election Call Will Be Decided After the Election (October 3, 2008)
- NEWS RELEASE: Democracy
Watch Files
Court Challenge of Prime Minister's Federal Election Call -- Violates
Fixed Election Date Law and Charter Rights (October 1, 2008)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: Election
call
by
Conservative
Prime
Minister
Stephen
Harper
violates
constitutional
conventions
and his own fixed-election date law
(Canada.com and 10 other CanWest News Service newspapers, September 6,
2008)
- NEWS RELEASE: Conservatives’
False
Claims
About
Fixed-Election-Date
Law
Bite
Back
--
Federal
Election
Should
Not Be Held Until House of Commons Votes Against Significant
Government
Measure, and Until Other Key Issues are Resolved (September 5, 2006)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: Conservative
Prime
Minister
Stephen
Harper
uses
lame
excuse
that
"Parliament
is not
working" to try to justify calling an election before the new fixed
federal election date of October 2009 (Canoe.ca and 4 other Sun
Media outlets, August 15, 2008)
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