What is the difference between an allegation of systemic discrimination and an individual claim of discrimination?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Coast Mountain Bus Company Ltd. v. National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers of Canada (CAW-Canada), Local 111, 2010 BCCA 447 (CanLII):

This Court considered an allegation of systemic discrimination in British Columbia v. Crockford, 2006 BCCA 360, 271 D.L.R. (4th) 445. In para. 49 of her concurring reasons, Madam Justice Levine discussed the difference between complaints of systemic discrimination and an individual claim of discrimination:

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