SCC to look at constitutionality of genetic discrimination ban nixed by ex-AG Canada but supported by new AG

By Cristin Schmitz ( January 24, 2019, 10:20 AM EST) -- Canada’s new Attorney General David Lametti voted to create a federal ban on genetic discrimination two years ago that the then-Attorney General, Jody Wilson-Raybould, vigorously argued — and the Quebec Court of Appeal later agreed — is not a constitutionally valid exercise of Ottawa’s criminal law power....