What is the test for determining whether a plaintiff is entitled to differential treatment on the basis of sexual orientation?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from J.S. v. C.F., 2005 BCSC 1011 (CanLII):

The second consideration is whether the claimant is subject to differential treatment based on one or more enumerated or analogous grounds. In Egan v. Canada, 1995 CanLII 98 (SCC), [1995] 2 S.C.R. 513, the court held that sexual orientation is a deeply personal characteristic that is either unchangeable or changeable only at unacceptable personal cost, and so falls within the ambit of s. 15 protection as being analogous to the enumerated grounds at ¶ 5.

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