Comments on: Defining reasonableness and equality http://www.canadasdebate.com/2007/02/27/defining-reasonableness-and-equality/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:53:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 Mezba on Defining reasonableness and equalityby: http://www.canadasdebate.com/2007/02/27/defining-reasonableness-and-equality/#comment-1279 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:22:37 +0000 http://www.canadasdebate.com/2007/02/27/defining-reasonableness-and-equality/#comment-1279 I would think it would be safer for girls to have their hair tucked in (where it cannot be pulled). However, as you say, we accommodate religion all the time - the key is <i>reasonable</i> accomodation. Letting a girl wear a bandanna is not giving anyone an undue advantage or infringing on someone else's rights. I have asked my Muslim readers on my <a href="http://mezba.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">personal blog</a> for their opinion and will post again on the <a href="http://crescentcanuck.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">political blog</a> once the feedback is in. I repeat that this incident has to be seen in light of other immigrant-unfriendly incidents that seem to happen all the time in Quebec and nowhere else in Canada. I would think it would be safer for girls to have their hair tucked in (where it cannot be pulled). However, as you say, we accommodate religion all the time - the key is reasonable accomodation. Letting a girl wear a bandanna is not giving anyone an undue advantage or infringing on someone else’s rights.

I have asked my Muslim readers on my personal blog for their opinion and will post again on the political blog once the feedback is in.

I repeat that this incident has to be seen in light of other immigrant-unfriendly incidents that seem to happen all the time in Quebec and nowhere else in Canada.

]]> Joseph on Defining reasonableness and equalityby: http://www.canadasdebate.com/2007/02/27/defining-reasonableness-and-equality/#comment-1278 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:52:46 +0000 http://www.canadasdebate.com/2007/02/27/defining-reasonableness-and-equality/#comment-1278 I'd like to reply, but to answer your question I could only <strong>repeat what I just said</strong>. Please, read my post more closely... especially the part about "equality." I’d like to reply, but to answer your question I could only repeat what I just said. Please, read my post more closely… especially the part about “equality.”

]]> Halden on Defining reasonableness and equalityby: http://www.canadasdebate.com/2007/02/27/defining-reasonableness-and-equality/#comment-1277 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:40:33 +0000 http://www.canadasdebate.com/2007/02/27/defining-reasonableness-and-equality/#comment-1277 Your examples of accessibility ramps and crossing signals is perfect both the able bodied and handicapped can access the buildings and cross the street but in the soccer example one is allowed to wear a scarf and one is not? How is that equal? You are accommodating only the religious, what if I believe global warming dictates I should wear a hat? Your examples of accessibility ramps and crossing signals is perfect both the able bodied and handicapped can access the buildings and cross the street but in the soccer example one is allowed to wear a scarf and one is not? How is that equal? You are accommodating only the religious, what if I believe global warming dictates I should wear a hat?

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