Document Type
Brief
Publication Date
12-7-1998
Abstract
The issues in this appeal are whether Bill 8, An Act to Repeal Job Quotas and Restore Merit-Based Employment Practices in Ontario ("Bill 8''), contravenes section 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the "Charter''), and, if so, whether the contravention is justified under section I of the Charter. This brief reviews the Government's repeal of the Federal Emplyment Equity Act (EEA). This repeal impairs designated groups to the greatest extent possible by removing all of the mechanisms which are necessary to remedy systemic discrimination in employment. Additionally, where discrimination is effected by the wholesale repeal of human rights protection, which has been neither justified nor replaced with measures of equivalent protective value, there can be no proportionality between the legislative objective and the deleterious effects of the Charter infringement.
Publisher
Ontario Court of Appeal
City
Toronto
Volume
Case 116 O.A.C. 176
Issue
Docket Number C27917
First Page
1
Last Page
36
Recommended Citation
Laura Spitz,
Brief of Intervenor, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), Ferrel v. Ontario,
Case 116 O.A.C. 176
1
(1998).
Available at:
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/783
Comments
Factum of The Interveners: Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, and Disabled Women's Network Canada