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From: robertj@garfield.UUCP (Robert Janes)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: The new equal rights rule and taxation
Message-ID: <2767@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 09:14:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 09:14:20 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Apr-85 16:42:19 EST
References: <262@looking.UUCP>
Organization: Memorial U. of Nfld. C.S. Dept., St. John's
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Summary: Equality rights have limited scope

Sender robertj@garfield  (Robert Janes)
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Organization: Memorial U. of Nfld. C.S. Dept., St. John's

In article <262@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP 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.
>
>1) A fixed tax (everybody pays the same, ie. $2000)
>2) A flat rate tax (everybody pays the same percentage)
>  or
>3) A fixed income (everybody gets the same after-tax income)
>
>Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

	Sorry but the provisions apply to only certain kinds of
discrimination such as discrimination by race, religion, sex, physical
or (maybe) mental disability, there are a few others however I don't have
a reference at hand. Furthermore this clause is qualified by two major
things:
	
	1) If such laws are "reasonable" discriminatory laws are
	   acceptable to maintain the functioning of the state.
	   What this means, well we will see as variuos court 
	   rulings come down.

	2) Provinces can exempt specific laws from equality provisions
	   subject to a sunset clause (I think), that is after so
	   many years the exemption has to be put into place again
	   by the provincial parliament or lose effect.


	Thus the above statements concerning income and tax problems
are not really relevant. Now if the tax system could be show to be
discriminatory against woen because of their sex......

	Anyways what this all really means won't be seen for several
years as the various court cases work their way through the system to
the Supreme Court.

						Robert Janes
						Memorial University of Nfld.