Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!ubc-vision!alberta!ncc!lyndon From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP Newsgroups: can.politics,misc.legal Subject: Re: Foreign Students and Ontario Tax Credit. Charter. Human Rights. Message-ID: <1368@ncc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 22-Mar-87 20:44:53 EST Article-I.D.: ncc.1368 Posted: Sun Mar 22 20:44:53 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 24-Mar-87 02:50:05 EST References: <8229@watdaisy.UUCP> Distribution: can Organization: Nexus Computing Corp., Edmonton, AB Lines: 29 Xref: utgpu can.politics:1335 misc.legal:901 Summary: Who is covered by the Charter? Followups-To: can.politics [ The uw.* groups in the original choked inews... please note modified newsgroups and followup lines in header - LN] In article <8229@watdaisy.UUCP>, kcho@watdaisy.UUCP (Mariaurora Mota) writes: [...] > This law, lets' call it Credit Law, violates three important documents: > > Article 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, > the Supreme Law of Canada guarantees equality to all. > "Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to > equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in > particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, > colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability." > So, this law discriminates against foreign students on grounds of > national origin by not allowing them to have equal benefit of the law. Not that I disagree with your point, but I question whether the Canadian Charter of Rights applies to a non-Canadian (or Commonwealth?) citizen? A foreign student in this country under a student visa is not a Canadian citizen (or even a landed immigrant) and as a result may not be covered. Any legal type out there care to stir up the mud on this one? Who DOES the Charter of Rights *legally* apply itself to? -- Lyndon Nerenberg ...!alberta!ncc!lyndon