Can your vaccine status lead to genetic discrimination?
What action can we take to ensure that does not happen?
Under the Canadian Human Rights Act, genetic characteristics are a protected ground,” Andre Givogue explains. “But the law doesn’t clearly define what that means. That lack of clarity allows for misinterpretation and misuse, which is exactly what happened in my case”
Givogue’s legal argument centres on the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act (GNA) 2017, and amendments to the Canadian Human Rights Act. While the GNA explicitly prohibits genetic discrimination, its scope is limited to health-related genetic tests, lile those used to detect predispositions to Parkinson’s or cancer
Givogue argues that the definition of “genetic characteristics” should be broader, encompassing situations where genetic / medical information is inferred indirectly, such as vaccination status
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