Law 2101 Lecture 2: Canadian Human Rights.docx
6 Jan 2015
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Japanese canadians: failure of earlier human rights law, common law, british north america act federalism, early anti discrimination statuses, criminal law, bill of rights no penalties, all try to promote and defend human rights in canada none of them worked in practice, our international human rights commitments, 1948 universal declaration of human rights. 1962 ontario human right code enacted other provinces ended up adopting it: today 3 important features of human rights administration in ontario, ontario human rights code, covers private and public sectors in ontario, covers 5 main areas of social activity/social sector, accommodation (housing, services (restaurants, stores, ect, contracts, vocational association, employment. In employment, s. 5(1) prohibits discrimination on 14 grounds,slide10: canada was one of the first all human rights under one legislation d, reprisal against a person for filing a complaint is forbidden s. 8, creates exceptions/defences, accommodation unique hardship (s. 17(2), special interest organizations (s. 18, solemnization of marriage (s. 18. 1) iv.
