Vriend v Alberta, [1998] 1 SCR 493 is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada Charter case. Delwin Vriend was fied from his position at a post-secondary institution because of his sexual orientation. A majority of the Supreme Court held that the exclusion of sexual orientation as a ground of discrimination in the Individual’s Rights Protection Act denied equal benefit and protection of the law on the basis of sexual orientation. This Charter violation could not be saved under section 1. The only appropriate remedy was to "read in" sexual orientation as a protected class.
Major, J. dissented in part. He argued that "reading in" was inappropriate since the Alberta legislature repeatedly indicated they did not wish to include such a protected class in the legislation. In light of this explicit position, the offending provisions of the Act should have been declared invalid.
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