Gender Discrimination In Canada

The term “discrimination” is a form of the idea that starts from the time of socialization. Through the family that brought us into this world, the way they nurture us and tell us about the world. Discrimination is a learning process we are not born into this world and know that certain people should be treated differently due to their gender differences and sexuality. Our culture, norms and values plays mature role in creating a negative image towards other groups of people.

The Supreme Court of Canada defines marriage as between two people with different gender. As time passes, the society changes as well as the law. “The law is a vital force in society: it is a skeleton that structures our economic, social and political lives” (Boyd, 2011).

This includes the fact of homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual. Until the 1969, there has been an offence in the criminal code of Canada in terms of sexual orientation (Young, 2012). The government of Canada refused to accept the idea that some individual living in Canada is being marginalized based on their sexism. This violate sections 15 of the Canadian charter of rights and freedom which states that “Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability”. To this day, the human rights in Canada including all the government offices such as, federal, provincial, territorial and, in some places, municipal claim that there is no place for sexual orientation (Hulbert,

According to Boyd (2015), “Restorative justice could mean different things to different people and many organizations claim to be practitioners of restorative justice” (p.328). Restorative takes a different approach of understanding a problem and how to find a suitable solution. For example, it creates the idea that the court system should treat everyone the same. No one should be marginalized base on his or her race, gender, and sexual orientation. Everyone should deserve to have equal rights. According to Spielthenner (2015), Formal Justice is the “Treatment of persons is formally just if they are treated equally if they are equals and their treatment is proportionate to their inequality if they are