Bill C-491

SUMMARY

(a) adding ``social condition'' to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination;

(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;

(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

(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.