LAW 529 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ontario Human Rights Code, Racial Discrimination Act 1975, Sexual Orientation
26 Nov 2017
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It is only we have statues that prohibits discrimination that it is illegal: have to find it in the statutes & see what it says to see what the circumstances are. If not covered by the language not illegal: r. v. quong wing [1914] scc, a majority of the sc upheld a. Incremental advancement began in the mid 20th century: british columbia"s social assistance act, S. b. c 1945, c. 62, forbade discrimination on the basis of race, colour, creed or political affiliation, in the administration of social assistance: couldn"t discriminate on these grounds, ontario"s the racial discrimination act, 1944, c. 51, prohibited the display of signs, Friday, january 20, 2017 symbols or representations of racial or religious discrimination: see an accumulation of legislation that made it illegal throughout the. Ontario human rights code: 1961, this was first comprehensive anti-discrimination statute. It encompassed a broad range of social activity.
