Recent judgment leaves door open on question of whether political opinion is a creed
It is often said discrimination is illegal, but in reality this is too simplistic a proposition. Human rights legislation, such as the Ontario Human Rights Code, does not make discrimination per se illegal. Rather, it prohibits defined categories of discrimination (known as prohibited grounds). Many are familiar with some of the prohibited grounds of discrimination such as disability and gender. Other grounds are less well known, with one of the least familiar being “creed.”
