LAW 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ontario Human Rights Code, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Canadian Human Rights Act

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Law and Business
• Course: LAW 525
• Professor: Kernaghan Webb

Document Summary

Chapter 7 - the law concerning discriminatory business practices. Discriminatory business practices chapter: description of ont. Human rights code selected provisions: brockie v. ont. (human rights commission, ohrc- gender identity guidelines, macdonald and downtown health club for women (ont. Human rights tribunal-2009)- decision one and two & media article: discriminatory business practices act & article, beauchamp v. north central predators. Note while there are significant examples of discriminatory practices between employer-employees, housing, or concerning government provision of services, this course is only concerned with marketplace business-consumer discriminatory issues. Canadian charter of rights and freedom: o(cid:374)l(cid:455) allo(cid:449)s (cid:455)ou to (cid:396)e(cid:272)ou(cid:396)se if (cid:455)ou"(cid:396)e dis(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)i(cid:374)ated (cid:271)(cid:455) the go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t o(cid:396) gov institution. Ontario human rights code and canadian human rights act. Ohrc: the bureaucuy that sets the functions and powers as to how the province deals with human rights issues. If your rights are infringed, you go to them to complain. It"s the hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:396)ights (cid:272)ou(cid:396)t (cid:894)(cid:374)ot hea(cid:396)d (cid:271)(cid:455) the (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)issio(cid:374)