RSC Webinar | Urgent and Long Overdue: Legal Reform and Drug Decriminalization in Canada

This webinar discussed findings of the report, “Urgent and Long Overdue: Legal Reform and Drug Decriminalization in Canada.” Panelists addressed Canada’s drug crisis, focusing on elements of a national approach to decriminalization. One of the panelists is Martha Jackman, coresearcher for COMRADES.

Martha Jackman, LLB (Toronto), LLM (Yale), is a professor of constitutional law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, where she has taught in the French Common Law program since 1988. She was a consultant to the Auditor General of Canada (Federal Support of Health Care Delivery Audit), the Canadian Bar Association Health Care Task Force, the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, and the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. She is a past board member of the Canadian Health Coalition and has acted as legal counsel in Charter test cases, including before the Supreme Court in Eldridge v British Columbia and Chaoulli v Québec. Her research interests include socio-economic rights, federalism, equality and health.