In a decision released on February 10, 2016, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal allowed the appeal of the International Association of Firefighters Local 268, represented by Gordon Forsyth, Q.C., from a decision of a Human Rights Board of Inquiry. The Court concluded that adoption leave EI top-up for adoptive parents under a collective agreement (which was not provided to biological parents) was discriminatory. However, the adoption leave top-up constituted an ameliorative program under the Human Rights Act and was therefore not a violation of the Act. The decision is helpful in setting out the meaning of discrimination in the Act, the standard of review, and what constitutes an ameliorative program. Read the decision here: http://www.courts.ns.ca/Decisions_Of_Courts/documents/2016nsca6.pdf