Protected Personal Characteristics/Grounds of Discrimination
According to the BC Human Rights Code, you are protected from being discriminated against on the grounds of any of these characteristics:
- race
- colour
- ancestry
- place of origin
- religion
- marital status
- family status (ie. having children)
- physical or mental disability (mental health problems are included)
- sex (includes being a man or a woman, breastfeeding, sexual harassment)
- sexual orientation (being LBGTQ+)
- gender identity or expression (identifying as /transgender/intersex)
- age (applies only to those older than 19 years old)
- criminal conviction (applies only to employment)
- political belief (applies only to employment)
- lawful source of income (applies only to tenancy – includes income assistance, pension, rent subsidies)