LAWS 3503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Canadian National Railway, Hostile Work Environment, Mank
18 Feb 2017
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Lecture 6 human rights codes & the charter (cid:862)the e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) rights i(cid:374) ca(cid:374)ada(cid:863), cl ment, silver, trottier. Title (cid:862)e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374)(cid:863) : kapur critiqued the linear progression of human rights. Economic rights = gap in provision of statutory-based humr1 resistance b/c they will cost the state money (guaranteed annual income might be an outgrowth of humr) Post-war anti-humr (i. e. rejecting jewish and japanese immigrants); now seen as very pro-humr. Self-congratulatory image of progressive humr stance but this is very recent (also big humr violations in our history) **humr are under our civil law but, started as quasi-criminal law: different penalties (harsher for criminal law, some civil law public and private; criminal law exclusively public, onus. Civil = finding on a balance of probabilities; resolving conflicts/differences (i. e. filing a complaint) Humr laws result of lobbying by organizations. Sex discrimination late in its recognition as grounds of discrimination (1960) First interest of humr = fairness (versus equality?)
