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Additions to the B.C. Human Rights Code
Recommendation 16:
These issues are multi-faceted and many hold strong opinions. The commission will be well-placed to examine the various perspectives and considerations important to all stakeholders and, if appropriate, to make recommendations that will help advance these issues and our understanding of them.
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Recommendation 30:
The Province of British Columbia must amend the Human Rights Code, RSBC 1996, c 210 to prohibit discrimination and harassment based on social condition.
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Recommendation 17:
The CRC was created by Article 43 of the CRC to implement it, by way of General Comments, and provide international standards that apply to the work that B.C. judges, lawyers and other professionals do in family law. They identify children’s rights and the importance of legal guarantees and apply procedural safeguards in describing how to implement children’s rights in judicial proceedings, which includes but is not limited to obtaining children’s views and requiring all appropriate legal representation… requiring all appropriate legal representation (see CRC General Comment 14, para 93). These guarantees and safeguards are not implemented in B.C. nor across Canada and should be implemented.
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Recommendation 6:
The Attorney General should create a legal means to consider tenancy and anti-discrimination rights under the BC Human Rights Code when they are raised before the Residential Tenancy Branch. This could include a process for the BC Human Rights Tribunal to issue interim orders once a human rights complaint has been filed and amendments to the Residential Tenancy Act that allow for an interim delay in a residential tenancy dispute when such an interim order has been issued.
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- Ableism ,
- Access to justice ,
- Accessibility ,
- Accessible services and technology ,
- Additions to the B.C. Human Rights Code ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Health ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Human rights system ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public services ,
- Substance use ,
- Tenancy rights
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Recommendation 2:
That the B.C. government, in collaboration and cooperation with Indigenous peoples in B.C., develop appropriate policy foundations and implement legislative changes to require anti-racism and “hard-wire” cultural safety, including an Anti-Racism Act and other critical changes in existing laws, policies, regulations and practices, ensuring that this effort aligns with the UN Declaration as required by DRIPA.
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Recommendation 24:
Most other jurisdictions, like B.C., provide protection from discrimination on the basis of “source of income” which generally implies collecting public welfare or social assistance. The B.C. Human Rights Code includes a provision that prevents discrimination on the basis of lawful source of income, but only in relation to tenancy matters. Otherwise, homeless people, people with limited education and people on income assistance are not protected from discrimination for those reasons.
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Recommendation 7:
Lobby the provincial government to add “social condition” as a protected ground in BC’s Human Rights Code, as recommended by the Office of the Human Rights Commissioner.
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Recommendation 15:
It is essential to the success of the commission, and the province’s relations with Indigenous people, that UNDRIP lens be brought into the creation of the new commission, and the work it will do. All of government has the responsibility to review policies, programs and legislation to determine how to bring the UNDRIP’s principles into action. The commission will have a role, from a human rights perspective, in ensuring that government fulfills this responsibility.
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- Access to justice ,
- Additions to the B.C. Human Rights Code ,
- Culture and language ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Education and employment ,
- Emergency response ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Indigenous rights and self-governance ,
- International human rights ,
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ2SIA+ people ,
- Public education and reconciliation ,
- Representation and leadership
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Recommendation 14:
Amend the B.C. Human Rights Code, RSBC 1996, c210 to prohibit discrimination and harassment based on social condition.
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Recommendation 11:
A commission that plays this role would meet public expectations about holding governments to account. Commissions and international bodies that have reported in details on human rights include: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada; the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Women and Girls; Report of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada; Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in British Columbia; and many other reports produced by NGOs, academics, and treaty bodies.
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