"Gender Identity" & "Gender Expression" Under Parliamentary Consideration For Inclusion In Canadian Human Rights Act & Criminal Code
Link5/21/09
May 20, 2009 – On May 15th, NDP MP Bill Siksay of Burnaby-Douglas, BC tabled a private members' bill that would add gender identity and gender expression as categories protected against discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act. The bill also proposes to add these two terms to the Criminal Code to be taken into consideration at sentencing for hate crimes.
This is the third time Siksay has tabled the bill, after it failed to make it to the House in 2006 and 2007. The bill is reportedly ordered high enough this time around that it will likely get a chance to be debated at Parliament.
