Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and Equality
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/07/07
For the equality of the sexes in Canada, there not only needs to be a movement for the realization of those rights but also for the definitions and delineations of them too.
With some of the prior acts and statements, and the work described of the commission, before in the country, we can then move into the areas of the discussion relevant for the implementation of the rights. The movements provide the basis for the legal foundations. Those bases in law then move to provide some fundamentals in the areas of implementation with awareness of individual rights among the public.
Through the awareness and the speak out of the relevant organizations including the commission on issues of fundamental human rights in Canada, we can then create a steady recognition and respect for human rights in the culture. This becomes important for the maintenance of a modern society founded on democratic values. Because, in a manner of thinking, the respect and recognition of all Canadians’ human rights, we find the basic placement of every person equal to every other in dignity and value within the society regarding rights; although, of course, every person with equal rights does not translate into every person with equality ability, motivation, talent, and so on.
The organizations used for referrals from the commission in Canada for some human rights complaints are the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. The tribunal functions to “protect individuals from discrimination.” Within the statements provided in some prior writing about the Canadian Human Rights Commission, we have the fundamental rights to equality, opportunity, treatment, and a workplace free from discrimination.
As these were explored in some earlier writings, the four stipulations do not need much further extensive discussion other than the protection of individuals throughout the country – men and women – makes for a more just, fair, and equal society and means that the equality provided through the commission is integral to the decades and decades of efforts intended for further equality between and amongst persons in the country.
As with the normal dealings with rights and legal situations, the tribunals in Canada about to the bodies similar to courts of law with less formality and focused on the areas of individual discrimination in one or all of the stipulations and on 11 categories of persons by sex, age, ethnicity, and so on.
With the powers of the Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada Act, the tribunal became enforced and capable of enforcing on discrimination cases in the country circa November 1, 2014. The Government of Canada “is consolidating the provision of support services to eleven administrative tribunals – including the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) – into a single organization, the Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada (ATSSC).”
Where this head into the future for potential excess bureaucratization but also the possibility for more equality, or both, the ATSSC and the tribunal forms a solid foundation for the protection of individual persons within the country as a referral body (the tribunal) for the discrimination allegations and complaints sent from the commission and then deliberated upon and sent to the tribunal.
However, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal mandate does not get affected in any way by this administrative change. The “Case matters will continue to be filed, managed and safeguarded in accordance with existing CHRT procedures.” That is, the operations will continue as always with the caveat of the changes to the higher-order organization, which appears to an amalgamation of power and influence oriented toward the enforcement of human rights in the workplace and elsewhere.
For the equality of the sexes with the right for women in vote almost a century ago to the provision of a human rights act for the workplace with specific stipulations on discrimination to the commission for the deliberation and consideration of the human rights (discrimination) complaints, to the tribunal for the referrals from the commission for decisions, the progressive changes over decades have civilized the nation for further equality between the sexes.
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