How has the Supreme Court of Canada considered “equality before the law” in the context of equal rights legislation?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Alberta (Attorney General) v. Lefthand, 1985 ABCA 81 (CanLII):
He later addressed this question in Attorney-General of Canada v. Canard (1975), 1975 CanLII 137 (SCC), 52 D.L.R. (3d) 548 (S.C.C.), stating at p. 563: “… a provincial right … cannot … in my view be invoked in contra-distinction to the provisions of otherwise valid federal legislation so as to result in a denial of ‘equality before the law’ within the meaning of s. 1(b) of the Canadian Bill of Rights.”
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