Commission’s report marks the first time the government body has been able to quantify the number of cases affected by ruling in support of comedian Mike Ward
Last year’s Supreme Court of Canada decision in favour of a controversial Quebec comedian forced the province’s human rights commission to close 194 files involving discrimination complaints during the 2021-22 fiscal year.
But the Supreme Court overturned that decision last year, ruling that Ward’s disparaging comments about Gabriel did not amount to discrimination under Quebec’s rights charter. The high court said the Quebec tribunal, which hears cases brought to it by the provincial rights commission, had overstepped its legal bounds in several cases where it awarded thousands of dollars in damages after finding that comments alone amounted to discrimination.
The activity report found the commission received 2,290 requests for investigation during the 2021-22 fiscal year and opened 548 probes, down sharply from the 839 launched the year before. Eight per cent of complaints related to discrimination based on age, while complaints based on criminal record accounted for six per cent and matters pertaining to sex and social condition totaling four per cent each.
At the time, it said it had seen a drop in requests for investigations involving young people, attributing the decline to the fact that children had less supervision from adults outside the home during extended lockdown measures.
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