Bill C-228
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2nd Session, 37th Parliament, 51 Elizabeth II, 2002
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House of Commons of Canada
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BILL C-228 |
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Antipoverty Act
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| R.S., c. H-6
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1. Section 2 of the Canadian Human
Rights Act is replaced by the following:
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| Purpose
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2. The purpose of this Act is to extend the
laws in Canada to give effect, within the
purview of matters coming within the
legislative authority of Parliament, to the
principle that all individuals should have an
opportunity equal with other individuals to
make for themselves the lives that they are
able and wish to have and to have their needs
accommodated, consistent with their duties
and obligations as a members of society,
without being hindered in or prevented from
doing so by discriminatory practices based on
race, national or ethnic origin, colour,
religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital
status, family status, social condition ,
disability or conviction for an offence for
which a pardon has been granted.
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2. Subsection 3(1) of the Act is replaced
by the following:
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| Prohibited
grounds of
discrimina- tion
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3. (1) For all purposes of this Act, the
prohibited grounds of descrimination are race,
national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age,
sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family
status, social condition , disability and
conviction for which a pardon has been
granted.
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3. The Act is amended by adding the
following after section 10:
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| Refusal to
provide
banking
services
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10.1 (1) It is a discriminatory practice for a
financial institution offering a banking service
to refuse to provide the banking service to an
individual by reason only of the individual's
low income.
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| For greater
certainty
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(2) For greater certainty, subsection (1)
does not restrict the generality of the other
sections of this Act.
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| Definition
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(3) In this Act, ``financial institution''
means
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4. The Act is amended by adding the
following after section 61:
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| Review by the
Commission
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61.01 (1) The Commission shall review
every 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 under this Act, and the
Commission shall report on its findings.
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| Copy of the
report to the
Minister of
Justice
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(2) As soon as it has completed the report,
the Commission shall transmit a copy to the
Minister of Justice.
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| Tabling of
report
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(3) The Minister of Justice shall cause a
copy of the report to be laid before each House
of Parliament on any of the first two days on
which that House is sitting after the Minister
receives the report.
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| Report on
poverty
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61.02 (1) After consultation with Statistics
Canada and the National Council of Welfare,
the Commission shall prepare and transmit to
the Minister of Justice, not later than the first
day of December in each year, a report on
poverty in Canada and the amount of money
that should be expended annually to end that
poverty.
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| Tabling of
report
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(2) The Minister of Justice shall cause a
copy of the report to be laid before each House
of Parliament on any of the first fifteen days on
which that House is sitting after the Minister
receives the report.
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| Debate in the
House of
Commons
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(3) Within the first fifteen days that the
House of Commons is sitting following the
tabling of the report, the Minister of Justice
shall file a motion with that House that the
report be debated in that House.
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| Debate in the
House of
Commons
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(4) The House of Commons shall take up
and consider the motion referred to in
subsection (3) beginning on the second day on
which that House is sitting after the day on
which the motion is filed.
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| Vote
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(5) A motion taken up and considered in
accordance with subsection (4) shall be
debated without interruption for not more than
six hours during the time usually allotted to
Government Orders under the Standing
Orders of that House or such longer period as
that House may, with the unanimous consent
of its members, fix and, on the conclusion of
the debate, the Speaker of that House shall
immediately put every question necessary for
the disposal of the motion.
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