Earlier this year, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal likewise ruled that the managers of Christian Horizons, a non-profit organization that cares for some 1,400 developmentally handicapped persons, can profess the Christian faith, but had no right to fire a lesbian employee for violating her contractual promise to uphold the agency's lifestyle and morality code, which includes a ban on homosexual relationships.
21) Prior to the most recent amendment to the Code, the system was supported by two pillars, the Ontario Human Rights Commission, which was charged with the administration and enforcement of the Code; and the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal (and its predecessors), responsible for the adjudication of complaints.
Copyright 2008, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Originally published in Blakes Bulletin on Labour & Employment, December 2008 The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ruled recently that employers are not required to give employees paid leave from work in order to accommodate religious observances.
In 2001, he testified before the Ontario human rights tribunal against Scott Brockie, an Evangelical Protestant, who was subsequently found guilty of discriminating against homosexuals for having refused on religious grounds to print materials for the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
Likewise, on 24 February 2000, Scott Brockie, the president of a Toronto print shop, was found guilty by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal of having violated the Code, by refusing on religious grounds to print stationery and letterheads for the Toronto Lesbian and Gay Archives.
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal accepted that Brockie's religious convictions are honestly held, but found that his right to freedom of religion in this case was trumped by the right of homosexuals to equality under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
In conformity with this twisted view of the Charter, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ruled in 2000 that Scott Brockie, an evangelical Protestant and printshop owner in Toronto, has a right to hold his religious beliefs on homosexual sin, but has no right to act on those beliefs, by refusing to print materials for the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, whose explicit purpose is to promote pride in gay sexual behaviour.
I received the following answer: "I think it is possible that SJHC would be able to argue before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal that it was not bound to provide same-sex spousal-benefits.
