I want to add a recent case.
My mom was a member of the Ottawa Chinese Senior Association, and because the persecution extended to Ottawa, through discrimination her membership was terminated late in the year 2001. She filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission. The commission eventually referred it to the tribunal to decide whether Falun Gong could be regarded as a creed. This was a determining factor in that case. The expert witness, Professor David Ownby from the University of Montreal, who is the director of Asian research there and is cited in the ruling, testified that Falun Gong, from the western point of view, is regarded as a creed or religion. Although we ourselves call this a cultivation practice, because we don't have formalities and we don't have churches, from the western perspective we do. So the tribunal ruled that it was discrimination based on creed. They had to pay damages for that, but the case is under appeal and is still ongoing.
