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This enactment amends the Canadian Human Rights Act by
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(a) adding ``social condition'' to the list of prohibited grounds of
discrimination;
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(b) declaring the refusal by a financial institution to provide a
banking service to an individual by reason only of the individual's
low income to be a discriminatory practice;
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(c) requiring the Canadian Human Rights Commission to review any
Bill introduced in or presented to the House of Commons by a
minister of the Crown to ascertain whether any of its provisions is
likely to result in a discriminatory practice prohibited by the
Canadian Human Rights Act; and
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(d) requiring the Canadian Human Rights Commission to submit an
annual report to the Minister of Justice on poverty in Canada and on
the amounts that should be expended annually to end that poverty.
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