Bombarder Inc. Sentenced to Pay Damages
The Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse has won an important ruling on behalf of a Canadian man of Pakistani origin who was denied pilot training under Canadian licence by Bombardier Inc. in 2004, because he had been identified as a “threat to aviation or national security” by U.S. authorities.
In a recent ruling, the Québec Human Rights Tribunal sentenced Bombardier Inc. to pay more than $319,000 in material, moral and punitive damages to Javed Latif. The Tribunal found that he was a victim of discrimination based on his ethnic and national origin and that his right to the safeguard of his dignity was compromised.
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