The BC Human Rights Tribunal dismissed a challenge to provincial funding decisions for multiple sclerosis treatment and fertility preservation because the evidence did not establish a plausible connection between the exclusions and the complainant's sex or disability. Government need not fund every treatment, and the Ministry was reasonably certain to establish a bona fide policy justification, but services it does fund must be delivered without discrimination.
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Sokolova v. BC Ministry of Health, 2026 BCHRT 187
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Held. The BC Human Rights Tribunal dismissed a challenge to provincial funding decisions for multiple sclerosis treatment and fertility preservation because the evidence did not establish a plausible connection between the exclusions and the…
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