Overview

Complaints

Who can a complaint be filed against?

The Canadian Human Rights Act protects anyone living in Canada against discrimination by the following federally regulated employers, service providers or unions :

• Federal departments, agencies and Crown corporations
• Chartered banks
• Airlines
• Television and radio stations
• Interprovincial communications and telephone companies
• Buses and railways that travel between provinces
• First Nations employers (for employment and service issues that are not exempt under section 67 of the Act)
• Other federally regulated industries, such as certain mining operations.

The provinces and territories have similar laws forbidding discrimination in their own jurisdictions.