Consider, if you will, what it would feel like to stand in front of the Supreme Court of Canada and face questions like: ‘if what you’re saying is right, wouldn’t that mean you could eliminate someone’s job for being pregnant, or because of their religion?’ I hope that you have concluded it would not feel very good to face such questions.
Mr. McCormick was forced to leave because he had attained an age which, according the the Partnership Agreement he signed, he could not without approval continue as an equity partner.
Today, the BC Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in the claim by Mitch McCormick against Fasken Martineau, upholding the decision of the BC Human Rights Tribunal on the fundamentally important questions of jurisdiction.
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