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Schmidt is a civil rights case, pre-Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The key question is whether there was an illegal expression of discrimination on the basis of religious beliefs, contrary to the Alberta Individual Rights Protection Act, 1972 (Individual's Rights Protection Act, 1972 (Alta.), c.2, s.3(b) - School Act, R.S.A. 1970, c. 329, ss. 53,142, 143).
The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection was founded in 2009 through the Consumer Rights Protection Act, 2009. The act also created the supplementary National Consumer Right Protection Council. The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection is led by a Director General. [2] [3] Consumers can file complaint against business ...
Alberta, [14] the claim was that the exclusion of 'sexual orientation' as a prohibited ground of discrimination in the Alberta Individual Rights Protection Act amounted to discrimination. To understand if this omission treated homosexuals differently from other vulnerable groups, they would need to be compared to just such groups.
[8] [9] At the time, the Alberta Individual Rights Protection Act did not cover discrimination based on sexual orientation, and the Human Rights Commission did not want to investigate it. [ 8 ] [ 10 ] Vriend took his case against the province of Alberta to court, which decided in 1994 that sexual orientation should be added to the act, a ...
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (protection of children and other vulnerable persons) and the Canada Evidence Act, 2004; Assisted Human Reproduction Act, 2004; International Transfer of Offenders Act, 2004; Pledge to Africa Act, 2004; Civil Marriage Act, 2005; Quarantine Act; Wage Earner Protection Program Act, 2005; Federal Accountability ...
Protection of Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Facilities for Bangladesh Television Act, 2009; National Human Rights Commission Act, 2009; Local Government (Municipality) Act, 2009; Mobile Court Act, 2009; Local Government (City Corporation) Act, 2009; Local Government (Union Parishad) Act, 2009; Protection of Family Members of the Father of ...
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Vriend v Alberta [1998] 1 S.C.R. 493 is an important Supreme Court of Canada case that determined that a legislative omission can be the subject of a Charter violation. The case involved a dismissal of a teacher because of his sexual orientation and was an issue of great controversy during that period.