Canada is a country in which people need not be moved out of sight or hidden away because of their race, because of a physical disability or because of some other characteristic that has nothing to do with their worth as human beings.
Canadians believe in a country in which employers cannot fire a member of a minority group to accommodate the bigotry of their customers, but in a country in which employers speak out against such bigotry on behalf of minorities.
The very purpose of human rights legislation is to protect such principles, including the amendment we put before the House in Bill C-33. That is the importance of human rights legislation in this country.