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Originally Posted by GGG
A few clarifications to pylons post:
It's the city of Toronto that has endorsed this practice, and he is not being discriminated against because he is disabled. It's because he isn't Muslim.
It's crazy that Toronto city council allows publicly subsidized housing to be ethic or religiously discriminatory if certain conditions are met. This is terrible public policy even if you ignore the discriminatory nature of it.
It's sounds like Toronto has quite a few of theses housing arrangements across a variety of religions and ethnic groups.
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While the rule obviously needs to be reworked at best and thrown out at worst, it's important to remember rules like this (basically a kind of affirmative action rule) come into existance because of a prior prejudice against the groups the rule protects.
The law is obviously not working though, I do agree.