Anti-discrimination law at national level?

National level: Canadian Human Rights Act

-Guarantees equal opportunity to individuals regardless of sex, sexual orientation, race, marital status, creed, age, color, disability, political and religious beliefs, and gender identity or expression

-Law applies to federally regulated activities throughout Canada

-Creation of Canadian Human Rights Commission and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to investigate and judge claims of discrimination

For non-federally regulated activities, territory/provincial anti-discrimination laws apply.  Each of Canada’s ten provinces and three territories has a human rights act or code that enumerates the protections offered to its citizens.

-Alberta Human Rights Act

-Human Rights Code of British Columbia

-Human Rights Act of Newfoundland and Labrador

-Human Rights Act of Nova Scotia

-Human Rights Code of Ontario

-Human Rights Act of Prince Edward Island

-Human Rights Code of Manitoba

-Human Rights Act of Norwest Territories

-Human Rights Code of Saskatchewan

-Human Rights Act of New Brunswick

-Human Rights Acts of Nunavut Territory

-Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms of Quebec

-Human Rights Act of Yukon Territory

-While Canada has a relatively good human rights record, the government’s treatment of the indigenous groups remains a contentious issue

-For many decades, indigenous people in Canada did not have full human rights protections, due largely in part to section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA):

“Nothing in this Act affects any provision of the Indian Act or any provision made under or pursuant to that Act.”

This section was repealed in 2008, and indigenous groups are now legally entitled to full human rights protections.

-Despite this, there have been claims of discrimination from police and courts in the form of racism and racial profiling, which has arguably led to very high incarceration rates relative to the rest of the population

-The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has pointed to social exclusion as the root cause of many indigenous peoples’ struggles with substance abuse and domestic violence

(http://www.canada.pch.gc.ca/eng/1448633333977)

(https://unchronicle.un.org/article/discrimination-aboriginals-native-lands-canada)