What is the test for determining whether a de facto adoptee is protected as a newly purported analogous ground?

Alberta, Canada


The following excerpt is from McNeil v. MacDougal, 1999 ABQB 945 (CanLII):

In Law v. Canada (supra) there is a certain degree of confluence or overlap of parts two and three of the test. Iacobucci J suggests a review of the purposive and contextual approaches when determining both whether a newly purported analogous ground should be recognized, and whether the impugned law has the purpose or effect of actually discriminating in the substantive sense contemplated by s. 15.(1). I found that the purposive approach was sufficient to find that de facto adoptees should not be protected as a newly purported analogous ground, so did not need to proceed to the contextual approach. I will, however, consider the contextual approach under this heading.

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