TV 42 - Reimagining Canadian Human Rights Challenges

Re-imagining Human Rights - Let's Take This to Another Two Levels In this month's episode of Triple Vision, the team follows up on the interview it did with Dean Stacey of the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians, produced in December 2023. In that episode Dean talked about the Alliance's attempts to overturn a decision by the Canadian Human Rights commission not to hear a complaint of discrimination against it. This month Peter and Karoline talk to lawyer Anne Levesque who brought the case to two levels of Canadian courts hoping for a different decision. Each time the courts rejected the Alliance's attempt at justice. Now, Anne speaks freely about what she sees are the difficulties with the current human rights process in Canada and what could be some solutions for a re-imagined human rights system. Human rights law in particular, and this is not me that says it, it’s the Supreme Court of Canada, ought to be interpreted liberally to give purpose to the Act. You shouldn’t look for exceptions or loopholes. We really need to look at what is the intention of Parliament, and the intention of Parliament behind human rights legislation is to allow all Canadians to live the lives that they wish to live. Resources: Profile: Anne Levesque, Faculty of Law LinkedIn: Anne Levesque