{"id":21960,"date":"2020-10-15T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/?post_type=case_summary&#038;p=21960"},"modified":"2021-11-12T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T19:29:00","slug":"r-c-demers-2003","status":"publish","type":"case_summary","link":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/case_summary\/r-c-demers-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"R. c. Demers (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cette affaire concernait la constitutionnalit\u00e9 des \u00ab zones de protection \u00bb &#8211; des zones autour des maisons et des bureaux de m\u00e9decins qui fournissent des services d&rsquo;avortement o\u00f9 les activit\u00e9s de protestation contre l&rsquo;avortement sont interdites<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le FAEJ est intervenu devant la Cour d&rsquo;appel de la Colombie-Britannique, en coalition avec :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Elizabeth Bagshaw Society<\/li><li>Everywoman\u2019s Health Centre Society<\/li><li>B.C. Pro-Choice Action Network Society<\/li><li>C.A.R.E. Program<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Faits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>En 1995, l&rsquo;Assembl\u00e9e l\u00e9gislative de la Colombie-Britannique a adopt\u00e9 la <em>Access to Abortion Services Act<\/em> (la Loi). Cela a cr\u00e9\u00e9 des \u00ab zones de protection \u00bb autour des maisons et des bureaux des m\u00e9decins qui fournissaient des services d&rsquo;avortement dans lesquels les activit\u00e9s de protestation contre l&rsquo;avortement n&rsquo;\u00e9taient pas autoris\u00e9es.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Demers a \u00e9t\u00e9 accus\u00e9 d&rsquo;avoir protest\u00e9 et d&rsquo;avoir interf\u00e9r\u00e9 sur le trottoir dans une zone de protection. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9clar\u00e9 coupable et son appel sur la d\u00e9claration de culpabilit\u00e9 par proc\u00e9dure sommaire a \u00e9t\u00e9 rejet\u00e9. Il a interjet\u00e9 appel devant la Cour d&rsquo;appel de la Colombie-Britannique, soutenant que la Loi violait son droit \u00e0 la libert\u00e9 d&rsquo;expression en vertu de l&rsquo;art. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/canadian-heritage\/services\/how-rights-protected\/guide-canadian-charter-rights-freedoms.html#a2e1\"><em>7 de la Chartre<\/em><\/a> et que, parce que sa protestation visait \u00e0 prot\u00e9ger le droit \u00e0 la vie des f\u0153tus, la loi \u00e9tait inconstitutionnelle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Argumentation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>La Coalition a soutenu que la Cour n&rsquo;avait pas besoin d&rsquo;examiner le statut constitutionnel des f\u0153tus, car il n&rsquo;y avait aucun lien entre la loi &#8211; qui interdisait d&rsquo;exprimer sa d\u00e9sapprobation de l&rsquo;avortement dans certaines zones \u2013 et tous droits sous l\u2019art. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/canadian-heritage\/services\/how-rights-protected\/guide-canadian-charter-rights-freedoms.html#a2e1\">7<\/a> &nbsp;que poss\u00e8deraient des f\u0153tus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La Coalition a \u00e9galement fait valoir que si la Cour constatait des violations des droits, elles \u00e9taient justifi\u00e9es en vertu de l\u2019art. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/canadian-heritage\/services\/how-rights-protected\/guide-canadian-charter-rights-freedoms.html#a2a\"><em>1 de la Chartre<\/em><\/a>. Dans une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 qui respecte les choix des femmes en mati\u00e8re de procr\u00e9ation et dans laquelle l\u2019avortement est un service m\u00e9dical l\u00e9gal, la loi reconna\u00eet que ces choix ne peuvent \u00eatre r\u00e9els et significatifs sans garantir un acc\u00e8s raisonnablement s\u00e9curis\u00e9 aux services m\u00e9dicaux et de sant\u00e9 connexe. Dans l&rsquo;ensemble, les dispositions constituaient une r\u00e9ponse mesur\u00e9e \u00e0 un probl\u00e8me social urgent, promouvant les valeurs constitutionnelles sous-jacentes et prot\u00e9geant un groupe vuln\u00e9rable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">R\u00e9sultat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>La Cour d\u2019appel de la Colombie-Britannique a rejet\u00e9 l\u2019appel de M. Demers. La Cour a not\u00e9 que toute pr\u00e9f\u00e9rence entre les droits des f\u0153tus et les droits des femmes enceintes \u00e9tait mieux laiss\u00e9e \u00e0 la L\u00e9gislature de d\u00e9cider. La violation de la libert\u00e9 d\u2019expression de M. Demers \u00e9tait justifi\u00e9e sous l\u2019art. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/canadian-heritage\/services\/how-rights-protected\/guide-canadian-charter-rights-freedoms.html#a2a\">1 de la Chartre<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le plaidoyer de LE FAEJ dans ce domaine ne s\u2019est pas arr\u00eat\u00e9 avec cette affaire. LE FAEJ a continu\u00e9 de d\u00e9fendre la constitutionnalit\u00e9 de la l\u00e9gislation sur les zones de protection devant les tribunaux. Pour plus d&rsquo;informations, voir notre intervention dans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/case_summary\/r-v-watson-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>R. c. Watson <\/em>et <em>R. c. Spratt<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le FAEJ remercie Nitya Iyer et Andrea Zwack, avocates dans cette affaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T\u00e9l\u00e9chargez le m\u00e9moire de FAEJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/news\/r-v-demers-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ici<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisez la d\u00e9cision de la Cour d\u2019appel de la Colombie-Britannique <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/bc\/bcca\/doc\/2003\/2003bcca28\/2003bcca28.html?autocompleteStr=r%20v%20demers%20200&amp;autocompletePos=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ici<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nos dossiers sont imparfaits, mais nous faisons de notre mieux pour les mettre \u00e0 jour &#8211; si vous \u00e9tiez impliqu\u00e9 avec le FAEJ dans cette affaire mais que votre nom n&rsquo;appara\u00eet pas ici, veuillez nous envoyer un courriel \u00e0<\/em> <a href=\"mailto:info@leaf.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>info@leaf.ca<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[579,580],"class_list":["post-21960","case_summary","type-case_summary","status-publish","hentry","tag-bubble-zones-fr","tag-privacy-fr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>R. c. 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