What is the legal test for a violation of section 7 of the BC Human Rights Code?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Adviento v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2003 FC 1430 (CanLII):
In Rodriguez v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 1993 CanLII 75 (SCC), [1993] 3 S.C.R. 519, Sopinka J. outlined at page 584 the following approach is to be taken in assessing an alleged violation of this section: Section 7 involves two stages of analysis. The first is as to the values at stake with respect to the individual. The second is concerned with possible limitations of those values when considered in conformity with fundamental justice.
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