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Alberta Legislature
Julius Yankowsky, M.L.A.(2000)

Introduction: This bill passed first reading in the Alberta Legislature on 1 March, 2000.  It would have  amended Chapter H-11.7 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta.  It was the first bill brought before a provincial legislature in Canada, but was not proceeded with.
 
 

Fourth Session, 24th Legislature, 49 Elizabeth II 
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA

BILL 212
HUMAN RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP
AND
MULTICULTURALISM AMENDMENT ACT, 2000

(Assented to , 2000)

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows:

1   The Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Act is amended by this Act.

2    The following is added after section 7:

7.1(1)  No employer shall

(a) refuse to employ a health professional,
(b) refuse to advance or promote a health professional,
(c) discipline a health professional, or
(d) dismiss or threaten to dismiss a health professional,

because the health professional is not willing to take part in or counsel any medical procedure that offends a tenet of the health professional=s religion or the belief of the health professional that human life is sacred.

(2)   In this section,

(a)Ahealth professional@ means a regulated member under the Health Professions Act;
(b)Ahuman life@ means human life at any stage beginning with conception.

3 This Act comes into force on Proclamation.

 

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