WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government voted down an opposition attempt Thursday to expand human rights protection to people who are overweight or have dwarfism. Members of the Progressive Conservative government caucus defeated a private member’s bill from Liberal Jon Gerrard that would have broadened the province’s human rights code to ban discrimination based on physical size or weight. Mazur said it’s an important human rights issue, especially for women, which is gaining support around the world. Manitoba’s human rights code bans discrimination on several grounds including age, gender, religion, sexual orientation and disability. Across Canada, there have been human rights commission rulings in favour of obese persons, but they involved people considered disabled by their obesity.

Source: National Post November 02, 2017 18:45 UTC