Reply #53: ah, you ain't been to Quebec

[iverglas]

Very odd little provision in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

Right to assistance.

2. Every human being whose life is in peril has a right to assistance.

Aiding person whose life is in peril.

Every person must come to the aid of anyone whose life is in peril, either personally or calling for aid, by giving him the necessary and immediate physical assistance, unless it involves danger to himself or a third person, or he has another valid reason.

Pretty much nonsense.

The Quebec Charter totally muddles up rights vis-à-vis the state and rights vis-à-vis private actors. It is a mishmash of what, in other provinces, is found in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Part I of the 1982 Constitution, which Quebec refused to ratify) and provincial Human Rights Codes (which govern the private sector).

I don't know of any case where that duty has actually been enforced. ;)