Current Version
| Region | Canada |
| Issue | LGBT discrimination |
| Status | Illegal in some contexts |
| Start Date | Apr 17, 1985 |
| End Date | Jan 1, 2017 |
| Description | Non-inclusion of Gender Identity in Charter. |
| Sources | http://www.charterofrights.ca/en/26_00_01 http://www.activism.com/en_CA/petition/inclusion-of-gender-identity-within-the-canadian-charter-of-rights-and-freedoms/9574 |
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Revision History (2)
created by alexkillby
| Original entry | |
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| Status | Illegal in some contexts |
| Start Date | Apr 17, 1985 |
| End Date | now |
| Description | Non-inclusion of Gender Identity in Charter. |
| Sources | http://www.charterofrights.ca/en/26_00_01 http://www.activism.com/en_CA/petition/inclusion-of-gender-identity-within-the-canadian-charter-of-rights-and-freedoms/9574 |
Reports (13)
- Status is not correct "Canada banned all hate speech and propaganda towards LGBT people"
- Status is not correct "since bill c-16 passed in 2016, discrimination based upon gender identity/expression is prohibited.
https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-16/first-reading"
- Status is not correct "since bill c-16 passed in 2016, discrimination based upon gender identity/expression is prohibited.
https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-16/first-reading"
- Status is not correct "Bill C-16, which adds gender identity and expression as prohibited grounds for discrimination under Canadian law.
This enactment amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination.
The enactment also amends the Criminal Code to extend the protection against hate propaganda set out in that Act to any section of the public that is distinguished by gender identity or expression and to clearly set out that evidence that an offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on gender identity or expression constitutes an aggravating circumstance that a court must take into consideration when it imposes a sentence.
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- Status is not correct "The human rights code of Canada protects against discrimination in all context. This includes the passing of Bill C16 in 2017 to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of protections"
- Status is not correct "Current status illegal. Bill C-16 passed in June 2017"
- Newer law has been passed "http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-16/first-reading Bill c-16 was passed in 2017. "
- Status is not correct "http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-16/first-reading Bill C-16 has made discrimination based on gender identity illegal in Canada. "
- Status is not correct "The Charter has been interpreted to include gender identity."
- Status is not correct "Justin Trudeau just made a law making it illegal to discriminate against any lgbt person(s)."
- Other "at a federal level gender identification is to self identification as noted in most recent census. this includes gender binary or non binary genders being selectable in census"
- Status is not correct
- Other information is incorrect "LGBT discrimination is illegal, even for gender identity"