The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association: fighting for freedom for 40 years. From: The Advocate | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Vancouver Bar Association (Canada). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

On this, the 40th anniversary of the birth of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association (the "BCCLA"), we take a look back at the history and philosophy of the association and some of the legal battles that it has helped shape.

BCCLA HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY

Since there would have been very little BCCLA history were it not for our philosophy, let's start with an idea. In this respect the BCCLA has always been unapologetically hedgehoggish rather than foxish, and the one big thing we have known is this: civil liberties and rights are a feature of the sovereign political authority ...

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