Air Canada’s no-fly list policies probed by human rights tribunal

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal is investigating whether Air Canada discriminated against an Arab-Canadian man through overzealous use of US aviation security lists. The investigation of Air Canada’s refusal to let him board a plane comes amid controversy about dozens of Canadian youngsters facing airport delays over security list mix-ups and high-level efforts by the federal govt to resolve the problems in Washington. The court-like human rights tribunal will determine whether the airline discriminated against the Syrian-Canadian man on grounds of race, national or ethnic origin, or his Muslim religion by denying him service, and whether its reliance on the American lists amounted to a discriminatory practice. Air Canada told the inquiry it does not profile passengers in a discriminatory way. <br/>