POLS 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Delwin Vriend, James Keegstra, Section 33 Of The Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3130
• Professor: Ajay Sharma

Document Summary

Sexual orientation: court has read this into the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination in the section 15 equality provision of the charter, vriend v. alberta 1998. Delwin vriend was fired from his job as a lab coordinator at king"s college: private religious college in alberta. He argued that it was because of his sexual orientation. Vriend could not make a complaint under the alberta individual rights protection act: the legislation did not include sexual orientation as a prohibited ground of discrimination. Vriend sought a declaration from the alberta court of queen"s bench that the omission breached section 15 of the charter of rights and freedoms 1982. Justice russell of the court of queen"s bench found in favour of vriend as the exclusion of sexual orientation as a protected ground of discrimination from ss. Rights protection act (irpa) violates s. 15(1) of the charter and could not be saved under section.