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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: The new equal rights rule and taxation
Message-ID: <610@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 12:10:34 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.610
Posted: Thu Apr 18 12:10:34 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Apr-85 12:37:35 EST
References: <262@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
Lines: 24
Summary: "without discrimination" .... limits

In article <262@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
||As you know, the new clause in the charter of rights that assures
||equal protection and benefit from the law without discrimination of any
||kind comes into effect shortly.
|| ...  the tax system discriminates on the basis of wealth and income.

The relevant words are (s.15(1) Charter):

	"without discrimination and, in particular,
	 without discrimination based on race, national
	 or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or
	 mental or physical disability."

Nothing in there about wealth, ability or profession, Brad.

[Anyone remember the Tom Lehrer line (in the preamble to "It Makes a
Fellow Proud to be a Soldier") about how the U.S. Army not only didn't
discriminate on the grounds of race, religion, etc., but also didn't
discriminate on the basis of ability?]

Dave Sherman
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