Showing posts with label Citizenship. Show all posts
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Monday 28 October 2019

Requirement that Applicants be Legally Permitted to Work in Canada on “Permanent” Basis a Discriminatory Act

Is it a discriminatory act to ask someone applying for employment whether he or she is legally eligible to work in Canada on a permanent basis?

If the answer to that question is “yes”, then what is the effect of an applicant repeatedly lying about the answer.

In a series of decisions spanning a number of years from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the answers to those questions were “yes” and “not much.”