It's very important for it to go into the Canadian Human Rights Act and the provincial human rights acts, but it's not a deterrent. It's not a deterrent to the behaviour of using genetic information against people. It's their personal private information, and if a person takes it through the courts or takes it to the tribunals, if a breach has happened in the human rights act, the onus is on the individual. It often happens that when people are young they don't have the financial wherewithal, and they don't want to out their entire family. In a case like that, you're taking your whole family to the provincial human rights tribunals. If there is a deterrent in an overriding pan-Canadian law, that will be the deterrent, and people will be protected.
On November 17th, 2016. See this statement in context.