HALIFAX — Nobody has the unfettered right to live in government-assisted housing of their own choosing, a lawyer for the Nova Scotia government told a human rights board of inquiry Monday. He cites sections that prohibit discrimination in the provision of government services on the basis of physical or mental disability. “When the government provides social assistance to people in Nova Scotia, the way it provides it to people with disabilities cannot be worse than people without disabilities. … That is a feature of the province’s treatment of people with disabilities,” the lawyer told the judge. The human rights case resumes hearings on Feb. 13 at a hotel meeting room in Halifax.

Source: National Post February 05, 2018 17:03 UTC