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Absender : culturex@vcn.bc.ca (Franklin Wayne Poley) Org.-Empf. : Workfare-Discuss@icomm.ca Betreff : Re: Quebec workfare violates human rights Datum : Sa 16.05.98, 12:45 (erhalten: 17.05.98) Groesse : 2423 Bytes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Nachricht am 17.05.98 archiviert ## Ursprung: /also@also.ol.ni.schule.de
On Sat, 16 May 1998 viggo.andersen@post3.tele.dk wrote:
> Excerpt from: > > http://www.eagle.ca/~ncccoa/workfarewatch/wrkwtch3.html > > [1997, March or earlier. The site hasn't been updated > recently, but I downloaded the files there and incidentally > found the piece below in file wrkwtch3.html. - Viggo.] > ---- > Quebec workfare violates human rights > > The Quebec Superior Court has ruled that Quebec's Employment Enhancement > Programmes (the province's workfare placement and training programmes) > violate sections of the Quebec Charter of Rights which guarantee equality > in employment and the right to provision of just and fair employment > conditions. The court found that the programs discriminated against the > participants on the grounds of social condition, which is prohibited under > the Quebec Charter. > > The evidence showed that the training promised under the placement programs > was non-existent, and that participants were in fact performing regular > work requiring minimal skills. > > The decision is being appealed by the provincial government. While > Ontario's Human Rights Code does not prohibit discrimination on the grounds > of social condition, the case could have implications for other legal > purposes in Ontario. The issue of whether the Canadian Charter of Rights > and Freedoms prohibits discrimination against social assistance recipients > has still not been decided by the Supreme Court
Viggo: As we have discussed before on this list, it is 100% clear that Workfare is a violation of the International Bill of Human Rights. The IBHR's is clear that forced labour is proscribed and the right to unionize will be honoured for all workers. Quebec regards itself as distinct from other provinces. It may therefore not feel it is bound by Canada being a signatory to IBHR's. But Ontario is bound by IBHR's and that monstrous May 14/98 "Prevention of Unionization Act" will be defeated in Ontario courts. I have also cited Section 215 of the Criminal Code of Canada-duty to provide necessities of life to those in your care. If a workfare parent has welfare discontinued because of refusal to take a workfare job and cannot provide the necessities of life for his or her children is the government not an accomplice to the crime? FWP.
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