Analysis Of The Supreme Court Of Canada

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1.0 Introduction
The Supreme Court of Canada although is considered to be one of the most virtuous places for justice, but in some cases the law seems to take the wrong decisions, which very often affects the citizens of Canada and its states. In this following assignment the researcher is going to discuss on such a decision that had been taken by Supreme Court of Canada, popularly known as the Bliss v. Attorney General of Canada which seemed to be a direct attack on the pregnant women, working in the different sectors. Thereby the court seems in indulging the inequality, and hammering in the federal rights of the people. The researcher here will discuss all the prominent factors of the justice and all the pros and cons of the verdict which may seem to be necessary.
2.0 Bliss Decision, the incident and the verdict:
Stella Bliss in the year of 1979 had been forced to leave her job because of her pregnancy only the four days before giving the birth of her child. Stella claimed for maternity benefits. By stating her situation as special the Supreme Court of Canada had not treated her case under section 30 of the Canadian Legislation. Rather her case has been conveyed under section 46 which finally rejected to give her the benefits of six weeks after the birth of the child. What is more surprising the court has sounded the most famously that the inequality is never created by the legislation rather by nature (Joseph, 1992).
Stella challenged against the verdict of the court under section 46 of Canadian Legislation for the violation of the section 1(b) of Bill of Rights. In her grievance she protested against the very discrimination between the sexes in the legislation. Bliss claimed that the law has violated its right of maintaining...

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...changes which finally had been felt and regenerated in the Brooks case which had happened in the year of 1989 on the same motivational factor where the distinction was completely ordered to be removed by the Supreme Court of Canada.
5.0 Conclusion:
The distinction of gender is the most common factor in the world of inequality. The women are needed to be treated in the same way as the men. The female being can be said as the most inseparable part of our society. The world is needed to be changed. And the same dignity and the same prominence are needed to be supplied towards the women. In against of the Bliss case and in against of the verdict of the Supreme Court of Canada, an optimistic view is to be generated. The substantive equality is to be retained. The social change, in some way, may become one of the relevant factors of this world of this world of inequality.

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