Instilling human rights is essential for equality within a society and in order to ensure everyone is provided these rights, a human rights commission was created. The federal government established the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 1977 through the Canadian Human Rights Act (Makarenko, 2008). Furthermore, it was one of the last Canadian jurisdictions to introduce a human rights commission system because of Canada’s government system, as well as the recognition that human rights protection is mandatory under the federal level (Makarenko, 2008). It was noted that many Canadian were unprotected by provincial human rights legislations, which then pushed the creation of the federal human rights commission that in turn applies to the federal
