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Bill 201, Magna Carta Day Act (In Memory of Julia Munro, MPP), 2020

McKenna, Jane

Royal Assent received. Statutes of Ontario 2020,

chapter 27

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Explanatory Note was written as a reader’s aid to Bill

201 and does not form part of the law.

Bill 201 has been enacted as

Chapter 27 of the Statutes of Ontario, 2020.

The Bill

proclaims June 15 in each year as Magna Carta Day.

Bill 201 2020

An Act to

proclaim Magna Carta Day

Preamble

The Magna Carta

and was a precursor in the development of England’s — and later Canada’s —

constitutional monarchy.

On June 15,

1215, King John affixed his seal to the Magna Carta, which placed limits on the

monarch’s power to overrule the law and protected the rights of ordinary

people. The document introduced key principles that hold true in democratic

societies today, including equal justice for everyone, freedom from unlawful

detention, the right to a trial by jury, and rights for women.

It is important

for the Magna Carta to be honoured and remembered as a document that changed

the course of history. The fundamental traditions of equality and freedom that

characterize our democratic society — particularly that nobody, not even the

Crown, is above the law — originated in this important document.

Therefore, Her

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Magna Carta Day

1 June 15 in each year is proclaimed as

Magna Carta Day.

Commencement

2 This Act comes

into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short title

3 The short

title of this Act is the Magna Carta Day Act (In Memory of

Julia Munro, MPP), 2020 .

Bill 201 Original (PDF)

EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Bill proclaims June 15 in each year as Magna Carta Day.

Bill 201 2020

Act to proclaim Magna Carta Day

Preamble

The

common law and was a precursor in the development of England’s — and later

Canada’s — constitutional monarchy.

June 15, 1215, King John affixed his seal to the Magna Carta, which placed

limits on the monarch’s power to overrule the law and protected the rights of

ordinary people. The document introduced key principles that hold true in

democratic societies today, including equal justice for everyone, freedom from

unlawful detention, the right to a trial by jury, and rights for women.

is important for the Magna Carta to be honoured and remembered as a document

that changed the course of history. The fundamental traditions of equality and

freedom that characterize our democratic society — particularly that nobody, not

even the Crown, is above the law — originated in this important document.

Therefore,

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Magna

Carta Day

June

15 in each year is proclaimed as Magna Carta Day.

Commencement

This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Magna Carta Day Act (In

Memory of Julia Munro, MPP), 2020 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

November 30, 2020

Royal Assent

Royal Assent received

November 26, 2020

Third Reading

Vote

Carried

November 26, 2020

Third Reading

Debated

October 19, 2020

Second Reading

Ordered for Third Reading

October 19, 2020

Second Reading

Reported without amendment

October 16, 2020

Second Reading

Consideration of a Bill

Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills

October 14, 2020

Second Reading

Consideration of a Bill

Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills

October 7, 2020

Second Reading

Consideration of a Bill

Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills

September 17, 2020

Second Reading

Ordered referred to Standing Committee

Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills

September 17, 2020

Second Reading

Vote

Carried

September 17, 2020

Second Reading

Debated

September 15, 2020

First Reading

Vote

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

September 15, 2020

Committee

Second Reading

September 17, 2020

Ms. Jane Mckenna, Mr. Percy Hatfield, Hon. Caroline Mulroney, Hon. Doug Downey, Mr. John Vanthof, Hon. Ernie Hardeman, Mr. Toby Barrett, Mrs. Gila Martow

September 17, 2020

Declared carried. Referred to the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills

Committee

Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills

October 7, 2020

October 14, 2020

October 16, 2020

October 19, 2020

Reported to the House without amendment. Ordered for third reading.

Third Reading

November 26, 2020

Ms. Jane McKenna, Ms. Teresa J. Armstrong, Ms. Andrea Khanjin, Hon. Lisa M. Thompson

Declared carried.

Royal Assent

Monday, November 30, 2020

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