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Michelle wrote:
 

Is there any way to challenge this in court, on constitutional grounds?

If you are talking the decision to take away the panel, no, it was put in by the government and so can be taken away by the government. 

If you are talking women getting equal pay, yes.  The way that is worked before was that women on an individual basis had to fight through the court system to get equeal pay for their job.  When they finally got to the top it had taken so long that most times they were no longer even at their jobs. 

 What was formed was a Human Rights Commission so that woman could go directly there and get a much faster response than spending the time and money in court.

The Harper government wants to take out this commission so that women have to go back to the courts to fight for their rights on an individuall basis again.

They would never be able to take away a womans right to fight through the court system and recieve equal pay (this is the law) the way the system is set up right now the government can't change judges rulings.


Pay equity - Canada moves back, U.S. forward By: martin dufresne (15 replies) January 29, 2009 - 5:26pm