Legislating Discrimination

Length: 0:10:46
Uploaded: 22 Apr, 2010

Recording Date: 8 Apr, 2010
Recording Location: CHRY Toronto
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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Program Title: Quebec Bill 94
Description: Bill 94 states that people obtaining or delivering services at places like health clinics, hospitals, universities, schools (including CEGEPs), daycares, etc. will need to do so with their faces in plain view. The legislation also states that people's face coverings will not be tolerated if they hinder ‘communication’ or ‘visual identification’. However, the legislation as it is currently written is problematic on a number of fronts. One example pertains to the lack of concrete definitions for terms; words such as ‘communication’ and the reference to ‘gender equality’ which, despite government assurances to the contrary, represent a slippery slope and could easily be used to later justify banning other religious garb such as hijab, turbans or yarmulkes. We speak with Julia Williams, the Human Rights and Civil Liberties Officer at the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN)

Host(s): Omme-Salma Rahemtullah
Featured Speakers/Guests: Julia Williams, the Human Rights and Civil Liberties Officer at the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN)

Credits: CHRY Toronto

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