The law makes it illegal to discriminate against gays in housing, public accommodation and employment. Quebec includes sexual orientation in its Human Rights Code, making it the first province in Canada to pass a gay civil rights law. July 20, 1971Įverett Klippert is released. Trudeau's amendments pass into the Criminal Code, decriminalizing homosexuality in Canada. When it becomes public this is a different matter, or when it relates to minors this is a different matter.' 1969 I think that what's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code. I think the view we take here is that there's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. It's bringing the laws of the land up to contemporary society I think. (Chuck Mitchell/Canadian Press)ĭiscussing the amendments, Trudeau says: 'It's certainly the most extensive revision of the Criminal Code since the 1950s and, in terms of the subject matter it deals with, I feel that it has knocked down a lot of totems and overridden a lot of taboos and I feel that in that sense it is new. In 1969, amendments that Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau had proposed when he was justice minister to the Criminal Code to decriminalize homosexuality are passed.
