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- From: aa478@Freenet.carleton.ca (Paul Shuttle)
- Subject: Re: Queens controversy yet again
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.004714.4533@freenet.carleton.ca>
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- Organization: National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Canada
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:47:14 GMT
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- From a Canadian point of view, this discussion is very
- interesting. First, our Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982)
- makes unconstitutional any _government_ action that offends
- persons' rights to equality. Thus, the Ferrari dealer is not
- bound by this constitutional restrictions, since s/he is
- in the private sphere.
-
- However, we also have a _Canadian Human Rights Act_, which
- prohibits discrimination even in the private sphere. Thus,
- in commercial matters, or "offerings to the public", the
- Ferrari dealer cannot discriminate. Recently, the courts
- have read sexual orientation into the enumerated grounds of
- this Act, and the government has officially proposed legislation
- that would incorporate this change. So in Canada, it is
- _illegal_ for a Ferrari dealer to refuse
- to sell to a person for reasons of sexual orientation.
- This may not be relevant to the apparent topic of your
- discussion, which is whether such refusal would be _immoral_.
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- III PAUL SHUTTLE aa478@Freenet.carleton.ca
- III Ottawa, Canada
- III
-