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290-298 Hemlock Street | 6 fl | U/C

plam

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#11

11-19-2021, 09:21 PM

(11-19-2021, 07:52 PM)jwilliamson Wrote:
(11-19-2021, 06:43 AM)plam Wrote: Turns out that student status (in itself) is not a protected grounds of discrimination under Canadian and Ontario human rights law. My previous townhouse complex banned renting to students. I was surprised and read the Charter of Rights and, nope, it's not there. Age is, of course.

As usual with Charter restrictions on age discrimination, it is legal to discriminate against young people. A townhouse complex would be allowed to ban either anyone under 55 from living in it, or ban families with minor children.

These things exist, but are they legal? I couldn't quickly find anything about it. In general, the Ontario Human Rights Commission says that it is also not legal to discriminate against young:

http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/age-discrimination-brochure

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