In 1928, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that women were not “persons” according to the British North America Act and therefore were ineligible for appointment to the Senate. To overturn this, the Canadian woman in question appealed to the Privy Council of England. At the time it was Canada’s highest appeals court.
In 1929, the Privy Council ruled that women are, indeed, “persons,” opening up the Canadian legislature for women as well as preventing narrow readings of laws that read “person” instead of “citizen” or “human.”
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