Section Fifteen of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that Gurantee that Canadians are aforded certain personal rights. Included in these human rights
Under the heading of "Equality Rights" this section states:
15. (1) Every
individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the
equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination
and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or
ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical
disability. (2) Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability. |
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