{"id":752,"date":"2016-07-13T09:58:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ojen.turnbull.co\/?post_type=resource&#038;p=752"},"modified":"2017-01-05T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T17:45:15","slug":"top-five-2002-canadian-foundation-for-children-v-canada","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/ojen2024.turnbull.co\/en\/resource\/top-five-2002-canadian-foundation-for-children-v-canada","title":{"rendered":"Top Five 2002: Canadian Foundation for Children v Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year at OJEN\u2019s Toronto Summer Law Institute, a judge from the Court of Appeal for Ontario identifies five cases that are of significance in the educational setting. This summary, based on these comments and observations, is appropriate for discussion and debate in the classroom setting.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><em>Canadian Foundation for Children v Canada&nbsp;<\/em>(2002)<em>, <\/em>57 OR (3d) 511(CA)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A provision in the <em>Criminal Code<\/em> <em>of Canada<\/em> makes it legal for a \u201cschoolteacher, parent or person standing in the place of a parent\u201d to use reasonable force in the correction of a child.&nbsp; The question before the Court of Appeal for Ontario was \u201cwhether Parliament\u2019s decision not to criminalize that conduct violates the <em>Charter of Rights and Freedoms<\/em>\u201d [para. 3].&nbsp; The Court wrote that this law did not violate the <em>Charter<\/em> because the provision \u201crepresents a fair balance between the interest of the state [to avoid the disruption of family life] and the interest of the individual child.\u201d [para. 51]. This case was appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), and the SCC confirmed the result found by Court of Appeal.&nbsp; Read the full SCC decision <a href=\"http:\/\/scc.lexum.org\/decisia-scc-csc\/scc-csc\/scc-csc\/en\/item\/2115\/index.do\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","resource-type":[10],"area-of-law":[138,206],"subject-area":[18,222],"grade-level":[23,24,25],"resource-audience":[],"resource-format":[],"class_list":["post-752","resource","type-resource","status-publish","hentry","resource-type-case-summaries","area-of-law-charter-law","area-of-law-criminal-law","subject-area-law","subject-area-family-studies","grade-level-grade-10","grade-level-grade-11","grade-level-grade-12"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Top Five 2002: Canadian Foundation for Children v Canada - OJEN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Top Five 2002: Canadian Foundation for Children v Canada - OJEN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each year at OJEN\u2019s Toronto Summer Law Institute, a judge from the Court of Appeal for Ontario identifies five cases that are of significance in the educational setting. 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