Ontario Human Rights Code
Statutes of Ontario 1990, Chapter H.19
PART I -- FREEDOM FROM DISCRIMINATION
- Services
- 1.
Every person has a right to equal treatment with respect to
services, goods and facilities, without discrimination because
of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin,
citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital
status, family status or handicap.
[1981, c.53, s.1;
1986, c.64, s.18(1).]
- Accommodation
- 2. (1)
Every person has a right to equal treatment with respect to the
occupancy of accommodation, without discrimination because of
race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin,
citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital
status, family status, handicap or the receipt of public
assistance.
[1981, c.53, s.2(1);
1986, c.64, s.18(2).]
- Harassment in accommodation
- (2)
Every person who occupies accommodation has a right to freedom
from harassment by the landlord or agent of the landlord or by
an occupant of the same building because of race, ancestry,
place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, age,
marital status, family status, handicap or the receipt of public
assistance.
[1981, c.53, s.2(2).]
- Contracts
- 3.
Every person having legal capacity has a right to contract on
equal terms without discrimination because of race, ancestry,
place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex,
sexual orientation, age, marital status, family status or
handicap.
[1981, c.53, s.3;
1986, c.64, s.18(3).]
- Accommodation of person under eighteen
- 4. (1)
Every sixteen or seventeen year old person who has withdrawn
from parental control has a right to equal treatment with
respect to occupancy of and contracting for accommodation
without discrimination because the person is less than eighteen
years old.
- Idem
- (2)
A contract for accommodation entered into by a sixteen or
seventeen year old person who has withdrawn from parental
control is enforceable against that person as if the person were
eighteen years old.
[1986, c.64, s.18(4).]
- Employment
- 5. (1)
Every person has a right to equal treatment with respect to
employment without discrimination because of race, ancestry,
place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex,
sexual orientation, age, record of offences, marital status,
family status or handicap.
[1981, c.53, s.4(1);
1986, c.64, s.18(5).]
- Harassment in employment
- (2)
Every person who is an employee has a right to freedom from
harassment in the workplace by the employer or agent of the
employer or by another employee because of race, ancestry, place
of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, age,
record of offences, marital status, family status or handicap.
[1981, c.53, s.4(2).]
- Vocational associations
- 6.
Every person has a right to equal treatment with respect to
membership in any trade union, trade or occupational association
or self-governing profession without discrimination because of
race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin,
citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital
status, family status or handicap.
[1981, c.53, s.5;
1986, c.64, s.18(6).]
- Harassment because of sex in accommodation
- 7. (1)
Every person who occupies accommodation has a right to freedom
from harassment because of sex by the landlord or agent of the
landlord or by an occupant of the same building.
- Harassment because of sex in workplaces
- (2)
Every person who is an employee has a right to freedom from
harassment in the workplace because of sex by his or her
employer or agent of the employer or by another employee.
- Sexual solicitation by a person in position to confer benefit, etc.
- (3) Every person has a right to be free from,
- (a)
a sexual solicitation or advance made by a person in a
position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement
to the person where the person making the solicitation or
advance knows or ought reasonably to know that it is
unwelcome; or
- (b)
a reprisal or a threat of reprisal for the rejection of a
sexual solicitation or advance where the reprisal is made or
threatened by a person in a position to confer, grant or
deny a benefit or advancement to the person.
[1981, c.53, s.6.]
- Reprisals
- 8.
Every person has a right to claim and enforce his or her rights
under this Act, to institute and participate in proceedings
under this Act and to refuse to infringe a right of another
person under this Act, without reprisal or threat of reprisal
for so doing.
[1981, c.53, s.7.]
- Infringement prohibited
- 9.
No person shall infringe or do, directly or indirectly, anything
that infringes a right under this Part.
[1981, c.53, s.8.]
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