Liberal cuts threaten guaranteed rights, commission argues;
The Quebec Human Rights Commission submitted a 29-page brief earlier this week to Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard and to the new committee the premier has put place to review all government programs and measures with an eye to cutting fat.
In the brief, Frémont advises the government not to undertake its austerity plan with only economic or budgetary considerations in mind. He notes that cutting or reducing the scope of some programs may affect certain vulnerable groups disproportionately and in a discriminatory way.
The Charter, he writes, is a fundamental law that takes precedence over other laws, and the state is bound by it. The program overhaul cannot adversely affect rights guaranteed under the Charter, such as the right to equality, regardless of race, skin colour, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, age, religion, political convictions, language, ethic background or nationality, income or disability.
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Quebec is the only Canadian jurisdiction where social and economic rights are enshrined in a Charter. Quebec has also signed on to certain international agreements, such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which address the right to work and to join a union, the right to a standard of living that supports health and well-being, and the right to an education, among others.
Good Morning - Any headquarters which can produce a twenty-nine page submission to government has at least one too many staff officers. Cheers, Eric.
There has never been a finer example of the concept of unintended consequences than the perpetually offended.
They wanted it, they asked for it, they got it, they ran out of other peoples money.
Yup, "Go,Already" and God speed!
Folks.
There is no need for further commentary..the above two have it nailed. I would like to see this Province also striken from the equalization rolls...alongside NB....for now!
Oh, don't forget they're better than the rest of Canada, Justin said so.
"The Charter, he writes, is a fundamental law that takes precedence over other laws, and the state is bound by it."
And the Charter is one of the most horrid legal documents in the history of the Western world.
proposed, first cut the quebec human rights commissions to zero, they obviously have too much time on their hands
"The Charter, he writes, is a fundamental law that takes precedence over other laws, and the state is bound by it"
yet no comment on the language police and Quebec's historic and record breaking use of the notwithstanding clause to violate that "fundamental law."
If you did away with the Liberal Left you would do away with VIOLATIONS.................
.........such as the right to equality, regardless of race, skin colour, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, age, religion, political convictions, language, ethic background or nationality, income or disability.
The misnamed commission in Quebec is out of touch with real life, which they need a severe dose of.
Part of the dose should be this, JaedoDrax on October 10, 2014 9:53 AM.
What is really unfortunate that there is not one politician, not anywhere, that will tell Quebec to go and suck a lemon. No more free money…….
One can begin to wonder, how do those people think, where do they think money comes from?
They clearly don’t think that somebody somewhere created the wealth investing a lot of brain and sweat.
These freeloading idiots should be let out to pasture and be fed that organic matter that Ms Kate mentions from time to time.
End of story.
I see they included "language" among their rights.
Unless of course you are speaking English.
So in Quebec, the less motivated have a constitutional right to the money of the motivated hard working tax-payer?
They could make a movie of this outrage and call it "Planet of the French". How the goons rule the stupid.
HOLY Sh*T .... !
Enough with democracy, they say. These people want their policies inserted into the constitution, which would make the place an authoritarian state run by the courts.
A fine example of quasi judicial BS masquerading as the government. The socialists in the QHRC should be fired. The Provincial government was democratically elected; the QHRC was not.
"He notes that cutting or reducing the scope of some programs may affect certain vulnerable groups disproportionately and in a discriminatory way."
This means that the programs now in place are doing the same. Duh.
The Charter, he writes, is a fundamental law that takes precedence over other laws
Such as the one that says that if you continue to spend more than you receive, you go bankrupt, I suppose.
Otay.....it seems these kangaroo courts which have ruled, among other things that truth is not a defence, but feelings are evidence now have ruled that they are the de facto government.
That oughta be well received by the elected government.
None of this is of any significance. The Commission is a government bureaucracy no different than any other, and I would expect the government to argue just that. Quebeckers may have rights to all those things claimed by Fremont, but the Commission employees do not have unlimited rights to employment with no accountability.
All government departments do a lot of special pleading when budget cuts come down. This is no different and will be treated no differently. Government departments rarely make their special pleading known unless they are in truly desperate straits. That Fremont has gone public means that the Commission is on the chopping block, including Fremont. He's an appointee of the previous administration anyway, so he's done like dinner.
you know democracy has gone down the toilet when HIRED bureaucrats try to dictate to their "boss", elected officials.
Rights are for individuals, not for government program recipients. The Charter guarantees no programs of any kind, last I looked.
Conflating individual rights with government programs is nonsensical.
Cut away says I.
And certainly not for government program administrators.
Any province that refuses to develop their natural resources should not be receiving equalization from those who do. Likewise any province as stuck on stupid as Ontario, whose voters give a majority government to the worst government in their history,green energy mad and an economic disaster to the point of have-not status should also fly on their own,manage their recovery by stopping what got them in the mess. Good luck with that as long as freaking Equalization exists.
... and don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
Can anyone substantiate the rumor that the money Quebec gets from the hydroelectricity they sell to the US isn't figured into the transfer payments?
They aren't talking about the Canadian Charter, they are talking about the Quebec Charter.
READ the article.