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Quebec (Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse) v Boisbriand (City of)

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as a Gardener-horticulturalist on the grounds that her medical condition involving chronic back pains would be too costly and would interfere with her long-term employment. Palmerino Troilo was a police officer for the city of
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s quasi-constitutional status it must be given a liberal and purposive interpretation. A handicap can exist outside of functional limitations. There is also a subjective component on which there can be discrimination.
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in law and found that a handicap is not merely a biomedical condition but rather can exist as a perceived limitation or
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Quebec (Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse) v Boisbriand (City of)
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The decision arises from two separate claims by individuals for discrimination under the Quebec
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Justice L'Heureux-Dube wrote the reasons for a unanimous Court and dismissed the appeal.
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The issue focused on the interpretation of the word "handicap" in the Quebec
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