From: Chris Ambidge <ambidge@ecf.toronto.edu>
Subject: Text of Bill C-33, amending Canadian HR Act
Date: 	Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:36:13 -0400

This is the full text of Bill C-33.  The Canadian Human Rights
Act applies to employment and goods/services provisions for those
under federal jurisdiction.  This means the federal public
service, crown corporations (like the CBC), the Mounties, th e
armed forces, employees in federally regulated industries (banking,
transportation, telecommunications, etc).  It means about 10%
of the populace.  Most people are covered by their provincial/
territorial human rights legislation.

But on with the (English version of the ) text:

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Bill C-33

An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act

Whereas the government of Canada affirms the dignity and worth of all
individuals and recognizes that they have the right to be free from
discrimination in employment and the provision of goods and services,
and that that right is based on respect for the rule of law and
lawful conduct by all;

And whereas the Government recognizes and affirms the importance of
family as the foundation of Canadian society and that nothing in this
Act alters its fundamental role in society;

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1.  Section 2 of the Canadian Human Rights Act is replaced by the
following:

      [Purpose]  2.  The purpose of this Act is to extend the laws in
      Canada to give effect, within the purview of Parliament, to the
      principle that *all individuals* should have an equal
      opportunity to make for *themselves* the *lives* that *they
      are* able and *wish* to have, consistent with *their* duties
      and obligations as *members* of society, without being hindered
      in or prevented from doing so by discriminatory practices based
      on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex,
      *sexual orientation,* marital status, family status, disability
      or conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been
      granted.

2.  Subsection 3(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

      [Prohibited grounds of discrimination]  3. (1)  For all
      purposes of this Act, *the* prohibited grounds of
      discrimination are race, national or ethnic origin, colour,
      religion, age, sex, *sexual orientation,* marital status,
      family status, disability and conviction for which a pardon has
      been granted.


[Note: Many of the changes in wording are aimed at improving gender-
inclusive language in federal legislation, and replaces cumbersome
phrasing like "himself or herself".]
                            

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Chris
with thanks to Ron Chaplin's carpal tunnels


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