TY - JOUR AU - Palazzo, Nausica PY - 2018/11/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Equality in Canada: A tale of non-normative groups struggling with grounds of discrimination JF - Oñati Socio-Legal Series JA - Oñati Socio-Legal Series VL - 10 IS - 1 SE - Individual Articles DO - UR - https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1097 SP - 88-122 AB - This article intends to address the limits associated with a rigid grounds-based approach to equality, requiring claimants to categorize their identity within an enumerated ground to &ldquo;deserve&rdquo; the protection of the equality guarantee. To this end, I first shed light on the irreconcilability of rigid grounds with post-structuralist accounts of identity, and then lay claim to an approach to equality that extends its reach to fluid, intersectional groups. Thereafter, taking Canada as a case study, I parse out the Canadian equality jurisprudence, particularly the cases offering an analysis of the aforementioned grounds. I then move to sketch out two proposals to overcome the risks associated with the current equality jurisprudence, by focusing on marital status discrimination. I ultimately offer a cursory overview of the complex interplay between approaches to equality and the organization of interest groups, and illustrate the issues around the organization of &ldquo;post-identity groups&rdquo;.<br /><br /> Este art&iacute;culo se propone abordar los l&iacute;mites relacionados con un enfoque de la igualdad r&iacute;gido y basado en motivos de discriminaci&oacute;n (grounds), exigiendo que los demandantes categoricen su identidad como un motivo enumerado para &ldquo;merecer&rdquo; la tutela de la garant&iacute;a de igualdad. En primer lugar, arrojo luz sobre la irreconciliabilidad de los motivos r&iacute;gidos con concepciones posestructuralistas de la identidad, y despu&eacute;s propongo un enfoque de la igualdad extensivo a grupos fluidos e interseccionales. Analizo la jurisprudencia canadiense sobre igualdad, sobre todo los casos que ofrecen un an&aacute;lisis de motivos. En ese punto, esbozo dos propuestas para superar los riesgos asociados a la jurisprudencia actual sobre igualdad, centr&aacute;ndome en la discriminaci&oacute;n por estado civil. Por &uacute;ltimo, ofrezco un somero repaso de la compleja interacci&oacute;n entre los abordajes de la igualdad y la organizaci&oacute;n de los grupos de inter&eacute;s, e ilustro los problemas que acechan a la organizaci&oacute;n de &ldquo;grupos posidentitarios&rdquo;.<br /><br /> <strong>Available from:</strong> <a href="https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1066" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1066</a> ER -