mrtravel wrote:
> If the Supreme Court states they should be permitted to wear their
> standard headwear, the obviously this is according to the laws of
> Canada. Are you complaining that they are anti-Canadian because they
> went to the Supreme Court?
Charter of rights prohibits discrimination based on religion, ., race etc.
The mountie uniform has existed for a long time and is part of canada's
image. Some immigrant comes to canada and *demands* a job as a mountie,
knowing full well that the standard uniform is incompatible with his
social lifestyle. He goes to supreme court, claims religious
discrimination and forces the country to change its national emblem.
The equivalent would be for me to immigrate to India go to their supreme
court and demand that no indian be allowed to prohibit the slaughter of
cows.
If I immigrate to India, I would do so accepting that in some
cases/areas, I would not have access to steaks.
If someone immigrates to Canada or any other country, they should accept
that in some cases, their original lifestyle would prevent them from
doing certain things. This is not discrimination against them, it is
just rules/traditions that have been established long before they
arrived here and thus, they knew full well what to expect when they made
the decision to immigrate to some country.
Say some Sihk went to apply to NASA to be an astronaut and had all the
necessary skills. Would you like it if he went to the supreme court of
the USA when NASA would tell him to remove his turban for flight into
space since there was no room for his turban in the space helmet ?
BTW, in the mountie case, the guy had been given the job but told to
wear the standard uniform which he refused. So the RCMP had not
discriminated against him in their decision to hire or not that person.
But the job required wearing a specific uniform which the person refused
to do and then went to supreme court to force the RCMP to change the
uniform.
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