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Abstract
The Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, L.R.Q.. c. C-12, introduces a new concept among the reasons for which discrimination is forbidden : social condition. Nowhere else in Canada is there given this explicit meaning to the right to equality.
Courts appear reluctant to give their proper signification to the words « social condition ». They prefer to rely on the better known expression of « social origin ».
The authors of the following comments bel eve that social condition must mean something specific, situated somewhere between social origin and the general right to equality clause.
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