Although this case was brought
under the Federal
legislation, the Canadian Human Rights Act (the «Act»), the principles of law are transferrable to the individual
provincial human rights contexts, including Ontario, and this case should be viewed as the leading authority on the protected ground of family status with respect to child care
obligations.
Dunmore decided that Ontario had a positive
obligation to include agricultural workers
under provincial labour relations
legislation because excluding the workers infringed their section 2 (d) freedom of association....