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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: The new equal rights rule and taxation
Message-ID: <619@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 16:16:31 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.619
Posted: Mon Apr 22 16:16:31 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Apr-85 17:00:45 EST
References: <262@looking.UUCP> <610@lsuc.UUCP> <204@uthub.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
Lines: 14
Summary: i doubt it

In article <204@uthub.UUCP> ron@uthub.UUCP (Ron Wessels) writes:
||Just a second here.  "Mental disability"?  Does that mean that if
||company 'X' refuses to hire 'John Smith' as a programmer because
||X feels that John isn't bright enough to write quality programs,
||John can sue for discrimination based on mental disability?

An interesting thought. I would think that the "such limitations
as are reasonable in a free and just society" wording would
come into play here, and the prohibition against discrimination
on the grounds of mental disability would be held to apply to
cases where there was no real justification for such discrimination
-- but it's certainly hard to know where to draw the line.
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