IRE430H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 27: Chapter 27, Social Stigma, Summary Offence
8 Jun 2020
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Only discrimination based on prohibited grounds is regulated by human rights statutes. The prohibited grounds are the means by which governments distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable distinctions. The evolution of the list of prohibited grounds reflects how changes in the social, cultural, and religious subsystem influence the regulatory standards regime. New analogous grounds recognized by the supreme court of canada in section 15 jurisprudence, including sexual orientation, marital status, and citizenship, are also now standard in human rights statutes. Often human rights statutes do not define prohibited grounds, and so it falls to tribunals and the courts to develop the meaning of those grounds through case law. Requires substantial ongoing limits on one"s activities and does not include temporary impairments of the type most people experience at one time or another, such as the flu, a simple cold, allergies, or a sprained ankle.
