A quick test for whether our institutions have lost the plot: if a clumsy booking form becomes a human-rights case, something has gone wrong upstream.
That is what recently happened in Quebec. A Montreal hair salon’s online booking process required clients to select either “man” or “woman” to book an appointment. A customer, Alexe Frédéric Migneault, who identifies as non-binary, objected. The dispute ended up before Quebec’s Human Rights Tribunal, which ordered the salon to pay $500.00 dollars.
