What discrimination do men face in Canada?

123herpderpblah · 2024-04-07T00:49:26+00:00

I lived for two years in Cree and Inuit communities working for a non-profit, teaching music in the schools. In the Cree community there were only 2 or 3 male teachers between the elementary and high schools. Some of the female teachers would drink in the evenings and joke about how the guys were surely perverts.

The teachers had a certain number of extra-curricular hours that they have to use. The women got together and made a huge leadership program called "Diamond Girls", they plastered posters all over the high school, and all their effort was only for the girls, no boys allowed. This is in an Indigenous community! The boys there are amongst the most at-risk in our entire society. And they're being excluded from incredibly important opportunities for self-development in their teen years, years that they are not going to get back. All this paid for by public funds.

Meanwhile, one of the male teachers who had an all-boys grade 6 class was trying to organize an outing with some of the men from the village to go out on the land and learn traditional skills. Some of the same women running "Diamond Girls" were actively getting in the way and trying to prevent it from happening. I saw this with my own eyes. In Indigenous communities!

It happens all over, huge elaborate after-school mentorship programs that exclude boys. They target the most at-risk schools and leave out half the students. It's awful, it should be against the law.

LENuetralObserver · 2024-04-06T22:35:58+00:00

The pay equity act of most Provinces and Canada only protect women. Such as it is only Female job classes that have a legal requirement to rectify pay equity if the female job class is found to be underpaid. But if the Male job classes are found to be underpaid by the same metrics, then there is no legal requirement to rectify the pay. [1]
Most political parties have a Women's Committee that seeks to engage women's issues and getting more women into politics.
Canada has a Minster for Women and Gender Equality and Youth but none for Men. This minster provides resources and activism for women. Highlighting the issues women face while not discussing any gender inequality men face. The position has been held by a women for 40+ years
Men are approximately 30% of IPV homicides yet are not given equal access to programs and governmental support. Ontario is seeking to pass the Renfew papers that has recommendations to only support female IPV victims and not male IPV victims. Even though 30% of all IPV homicides are Men.
Men also make up 70% of all homicide victims in Canada, yet the focus is predominantly on female victims of homicide
It is legal to charge men more for car insurance then women. No other protected class in Canada can be charged differently.
MGM is allowed in Canada.

[1] https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/p-4.2/page-1.html

SuspicousEggSmell · 2024-04-06T23:18:50+00:00

the majority of the missing and murdered Indigenous population is men, ranging from 70-86% of those missing and murdered. Despite this, all attempts and suggestions for an inquiry into them have been shut down, specifically because they are men. Meanwhile the inquiry for missing and murdered women and girls said the victimization rates are grounds for genocide (that claim was controversial but it stands to reason that if it’s genocide when it’s women and girls, it’s also genocide when it’s men and boys, yet those claiming genocide do not see both equally. This is particularly bad given Indigenous men are known to be at particular risk for police violence, with horrific crimes like the starlight tours being done against them)

Real-Degree-8493 · 2024-04-07T01:39:01+00:00

A legal one is Bill C 51 which was a respond to Jian Ghomeshi being acquitted of charges of sexual assault rightfully so when his accusers where caught conspiring and lying under oath. Bill C 51 forces the defence to reveal private information, emails, text messages, other electronic records in their possession allowing the plaintiff to sculp their accusations with foreknowledge of what the defence knows. While there is nothing inherently sexed in the bill culture dictates it will predominately used against men unfairly depriving them of a defence.

MozartFan5 · 2024-04-06T22:03:01+00:00

Family law.

Dashing2026 · 2024-04-06T23:05:16+00:00

In my opinion it's cultural rather than legal, but other commentors can chime in.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates/s/zDmN7fBDld

Ok_Front_7814 · 2025-05-11T23:52:27+00:00

Viagra is not covered under any provincial or private insurance.

DevelopmentLeft5056 · 2025-09-25T11:57:03+00:00

😆 what a question...

yuendeming1994 · 2024-04-08T22:26:53+00:00

Seeking jobs for long time, and many job explicitly said they only intend to hire woman. I'm not sure whether they would dare to do the opposite.

And with the literally better qualifications and experiences, woman literally given more opportunity.

It seems the experience is sufficient to me that men are more disadvantage in canada.

OrderOk1379 · 2026-03-26T20:10:12+00:00

Well I always thought men and women were equal because that's how I was raised. That's how society treated me growing up. Until I had a child. Then I was met with nothing but road blocks

I couldn't enter the hospital when my daughter had to get stitches. The treated me like I wasn't supposed to be there, they only let her in when her mom came to the lobby and got me.

I couldn't register my daughter for school. They said they needed the mothers signature.

Couldn't apply for benefits without the mothers signature.

Was ID'd several times picking up my child from daycare even though I go there every week.

Was stopped and interrogated in the halls of my child's school when I went to pick her up.

CRA denied me benefits, even when I had a court order they still found a way to shut it down

My first daughter, the nurse went to to the mother with are was born and advised her not to put me in the birth certificate just incase we broke up, then I wouldn't have any rights. I found this strange that she didn't do the opposite and came up to me to tell me to make sure I sign the birth certificate so that I do have rights

The list goes on

Even legal aid denied me spite having the same credentials as my ex.

The system doesn't want men to have rights because the benefits to being a father with full custody is like living for free in the government's eyes.

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