REAL Women of Canada has a brief but excellent article on Bill C-16 explaining some of the political shenanigans that have gone on (Nov 2, 2016). Some excerpts:

The debate commenced at 10:10 a.m. and in just 4 hours at 2:00 p.m. the majority Liberals pushed the bill to the Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

That Committee did not bother to invite witnesses from the public to appear before it.  Further, Minister of Justice, Jody Wilson-Raybould, admitted at the Committee Hearing that she had no actual evidence or data on whether transsexuals were actually experiencing discrimination or hate, but was only relying on information provided to her from partisan Transgender and LGBT activists.