| Case | Tribunal
Year |
Facts Summary | Compensatory and Lost Income Awards |
| Note Canada has maximum recovery of $20,000 for injured feelings and $20,000 for reckless conduct. Lost income is not included in these caps. | |||
| Family Status | |||
| Johnstone v Canada Border Service Agency. | FCA
2014 |
Failure to offer procedural and substantive accommodation | $15,000 plus $20,000 as “special damages” due to wilful and reckless conduct[1] |
| Seeley v CNR | FCA
2014 |
Child care issue – move from Jaspar to Vancouver | $15,000 plus $20,000 due to wilful and reckless conduct plus reinstatement and 2.5 years lost pay less 30% reduction due to mitigation issue, plus affirmative order |
| Hicks v Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, upheld by Federal Court of Canada | FCA 2015 | Moving costs policy unfairly applied. | $15,000 plus $20,000 due to wilful and reckless conduct |
| Berberi v Canada | CHRT
2009 |
Physical altercation of a “brief duration” | $5,000 compensatory plus $2,500 due to wilful and reckless conduct |
| Reprisal | $2,000 plus a further $500 | ||
| Turner v Canada Border Services | CHRT
2015 |
Perceived disability | $15,000 compensatory and $15,000 special damages |
| 10 year income loss plus 5 year income differential in the total sum of $280,000 | |||
| Reprisal | |||
| Warman v Winnicki | CHRT
2006 |
Reference to applicant as “vile acidic Jew” | $500 as reprisal plus $5,000 as special damages |
| Cassidy v Canada Post | CHRT
2012 |
Conduct said to have limited impact on applicant | $2,000 plus $500 as special damages |
[1] As allowed by the Canadian Human Rights Act to a maximum of $20,000. The same statute has capped compensatory damages at $20,000 as of June 1998.