Winnipeg Transgender Support Group

With the recent fall of the government Bill C-389 will not become law.
Mercedes Allen reports:
With [last] Friday’s election call, Bill C-389, An Act to Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression) dies. … Bill Siksay confirms on his Facebook page that Private Members bills do not [...]

From Xtra:
Bill C-389, which aims to give trans Canadians explicit rights under the Human Rights Act and the hate-crimes provision of the Criminal Code, passed the House of Commons [Feb. 9] with a vote of 143 to 135.

The vote can be viewed here: http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/ParlVu/Cont…tEntityId=7240. It starts at the 4:31 mark (4 hours, 31 [...]

At its August 2010 meeting, the Canadian Bar Association adopted a resolution in support of Equality for All Regardless of Gender Identity and Gender Expression:
BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Canadian Bar Association urge the federal, provincial and territorial governments to review their legislation and policies, especially human rights legislation and hate crimes under the Criminal [...]

On December 18, 2008, the UN General Assembly was presented with a declaration on sexual orientation and gender identity signed by 66 countries, including Canada.
According to Wikipedia:
The declaration condemns violence, harassment, discrimination, exclusion, stigmatization, and prejudice based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It also condemns killings and executions, torture, arbitrary arrest, and deprivation of [...]