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We are moving from futility to absurdity. Stuart Murray, former Progressive Conservative leader, is the latest target of an irrational attack launched by a prominent so-called gay rights leader. Daniel Voth claims that Murray is not fit to be the head of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. According to Voth, Murray should be disqualified because he voted against including sexual orientation as one of the categories to be included in anti-discrimination legislation. Because Stuart Murray and others voted against giving such legal status he is labelled by Daniel Voth as being "homophobic." The definition of homophobia includes "unreasoning fear of or antipathy towards homosexuals." Or alternatively, "fear of or contempt for gay men and lesbians. In doing so, Voth is ignoring the Human ...
... President Barack Obama and most other political leaders and many other citizens who take the posit...
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Parliament must now turn its mind to extending the reach of the Canadian Human Rights Act to protect against discrimination based on political belief. On many reserves, band governments have adopted codes that protect against the abusive use of political power, but on some reserves, a political housecleaning of band employees is done when there is a change of leadership. Employees who did not vote the "politically correct" way are fired and those who did are rewarded with jobs. Canadians generally are protected from such unrestrained uses of political power by provincial human rights codes, which are not applicable to Indian bands. The Harper government must finish the job before it. It must introduce an amendment to the CHRA prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of political belief...
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... Rights - Equality rights - Gender discrimination - Pay equity - Pay equity agreement signed in favo... initiatives within the purview of the political branches of government" (para. 351). 25 Since, in ...
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WHAT'S remarkable about [Roland Penner]'s new memoir is how much the former Manitoba attorney general and dean of the University of Manitoba's faculty of law allows the spotlight to focus on others. Changing Manitoba's Human Rights Code, including prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, was Penner's proudest political moment. Penner restricts himself to quoting [Frances Russell]'s contention in the Winnipeg Free Press that [Jim Walding] made a deal. The allegation has never been proven and Walding is now dead, Penner notes.
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Sidney Green's criticism of the Manitoba Human Right's Code (Interpretation of the rights code absurd, Sept. 23) is misconceived. The code and similar legislation in all Canadian provinces is not an attempt to legislate morality as he alleges. It prohibits unjustified discrimination in three areas: employment, accommodation and services available to the public if the discrimination is based, for example, on political belief, religion, gender, race, ethnic origin and, since 1987 when I was attorney general, sexual orientation.
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... decision added to a firestorm of media, political and academic debate about whether anti-discriminat... have resulted in a finding of discrimination by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.5 Marc Lemir...
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[Stuart Murray], the new CEO of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, defended his vote against the legislation in 2002 by stating that "he was just following the wishes of his caucus." This, despite his apparent personal support for gay and lesbian rights. Murray's defense of his earlier actions -- the crowd made me do it -- is exactly what allows human rights violations to occur. While there will always be people who attempt to violate others' rights, it is the majority of silent bystanders who will make the abuse possible. Murray's justification shows that he has little understanding of the process of human rights violations. Moreover, he still does not appear to be prepared to take a leadership role in standing up for what is right (or even for what he apparently believes is right). ...
...Once discrimination has been identified, it cannot simply be justifiedd, as Green suggests, as a "political opinion." This same logic could be used to support...
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The goal of this study was to assess the extent to which the scholarly literature on employment interviewing is reflected in the deliberations and decisions of Human Rights Tribunals in Canada. We reviewed human rights cases reported in the Canadian Human Rights Reporter from 1980 to 2003. All cases involving charges of discrimination alleged to have occurred during a face-to-face employment interview were included for analysis (N = 75). Findings suggest that while tribunals give great importance to the standardization of the entire interview process across all candidates, they largely neglect the importance of job analysis as the foundation for job descriptions and interview questions.
... drug, ancestry or place of origin, and political belief as prohibited grounds of discrimination. It...
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...Civil rights -- Employment -- Discrimination -- Civil status -- Members of the immediate famili... charitable, philanthropic, religious, political or educational nature of a non-profit institution ...
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... of Rights - Right to equality - Discrimination based on age - Federal pension legislation reducin... against groups suffering social, political and legal disadvantage in our society" (p. 1333). ...
