The Canadian Jewish Congress hailed an announcement by Ontario Premier Leslie M. Frost that his provincial government had amended the Fair Accommodation Practices Act to include provisions against racial and religious discrimination in housing.
The ban applies in the renting of apartments in buildings containing more than six units. Labor Minister Charles Daley presented a companion measure to change the name of the Ontario Anti-Discrimination Commission to the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
In introducing the measure, the Premier said that the government “should not interfere with the rights of people to choose their friends and to operate their own homes as they see fit. Accordingly, we have confined this legislation, insofar as apartments are concerned, to the type of accommodation which can really be termed public accommodation.”
In praising the legislation, the Canadian Jewish Congress commended the Ontario Government “on this move towards a higher concept of human and social relations and greet it as part of the structure of such legislation that has been built up in the last number of years. “
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