“A Montreal man has been ordered to pay $8,000 to a panhandler after an email he wrote complaining about her presence outside a liquor store was deemed discriminatory by the province’s human rights commission. … The SAQ [Quebec provincial liquor store operator] then made the decision to share the letter with the woman, who was advised by the police to file a complaint with the commission.” [CBC]
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Another illustration why Canada needs the USA’s First Amendment, also why government monopolies are often a bad idea.
If Quebec’s retail liquor trade were not a government monopoly, the store would face a boycott by the non-bum elements of the population. As a monopoly with civil-service-protected employees, however, they can thumb their noses at the community.
By showing it to the panhandler, was not the store operator repeating this vile statement and should be held to the same standard of behavior and penalty?
Bob
Whar an outrage. The statement caused no harm to the derelict because it was not made to the person. The patrons if that liquor store should take their business elsewhere.