No, I can't think of any examples where the criminal law power has been used against discrimination, so that the double aspect doctrine would be relevant. But the double aspect doctrine would be relevant here because there are so many other areas where the criminal law power has been exercised. A good example is highway traffic. There are federal prohibitions, criminal law. There are provincial prohibitions, property and civil rights. Exactly the same doctrine would apply here, so that it's not as if Parliament would be absorbing the whole area of genetic discrimination. It would simply be making it an offence to discriminate on the basis of genetic characteristics.
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