Canadian Bill of Rights
Canada (AG) v Lavell, [1974] S.C.R. 1349, was a landmark 5–4 Supreme Court of Canada decision holding that Section 12(1)(b) of the "Indian Act" did not violate the respondents' right to "equality before the law" under Section 1 (b) of the "Canadian Bill of Rights". The two respondents, Lavell and Bédard, had alleged that the impugned section was discriminatory under the "Canadian Bill of Rights" by virtue of the fact that it deprived Indian women of their status for marrying a non-Indian, but not Indian men.