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Immunity Licences be an Ingredient in our Policy Response to COVID-19?
based on race, religion, or sexual orientation, then it might be diffi-
cult to establish that immunity licences constitute an infringement of
Canadians’ constitutionally guaranteed rights. Ethical and legal anal-
ysis would then point in different directions.
It would still be possible to propose that discriminating between
immune and non-immune persons is analogous to the constitutionally
prohibited grounds of disability, which would constitute an infringe-
ment of section 15.13 In this case, the question would become that of
determining whether the infringement could be saved by the various
tests that make up the Oakes Test, in particular the proportionality test
that it includes. Our analysis suggests that it could not, since, in effect,
we have shown that in the pursuit of public health goals, the policy
goes further in the limitation of equality than is necessary.
13. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s 15(1), Part 1 of the Constitution Act,
1982, being Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (UK), 1982, c 11.
VULNERABLE
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Title
- VULNERABLE
- Subtitle
- The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Authors
- Vanessa MacDonnell
- Jane Philpott
- Sophie Thériault
- Sridhar Venkatapuram
- Publisher
- Ottawa Press
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9780776636429
- Size
- 15.2 x 22.8 cm
- Pages
- 648
- Categories
- Coronavirus
- International