Canada’s easternmost province, Newfoundland, has enacted a human rights law banning racial and religious discrimination in employment and public accomodations. The anti-bias legislation will also ban discrimination based on sex, but this section of the law does not go into effect until Sept. 1. Housing is not yet covered in this act. The first anti-discrimination law in Canada was passed in Ontario in 1951, outlawing racial bias in employment. The agency most active in initiating the campaign for that legislation 20 years ago was the Canadian Jewish Congress. There are two small Jewish communities in Newfoundland: one in St. John’s and the other in Cornerbrook. Despite the small size of Jews, the province is represented in the federal parliament by a Jewish MP. Jack Marshall.
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