lifeasdaddy - Blind Man's guide dog refused by Vancouver Taxi Driver.

There's this story about a blind man, Bruce Gilmour,  who met with refusal by a taxi driver on the grounds that he had a guide dog with him.

The taxi driver, Behzad Saidy,  claimed that his religion did not permit him to have contact with dogs, and hence he could not carry a guide dog in the car.

The case is being heard in the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal as Gilmour vs. North Shore Taxi and others.  Final hearing and decision is pending.

The Vancouver taxi company, North Shore Taxi, claims that about 50% of their drivers cannot carry guide dogs on either religious or medical grounds.

Both sides in the legal tussle have evidence of opposing views by Muslim clerics on the issue of a taxi driver conveying guide dogs.

I was going to write that this problem had not yet occurred in Australia, but I was wrong.

There's this report of 20 blind people being refused conveyance in Victoria (Australia) due to guide dogs.

In Australia it is illegal for a taxi driver to refuse to carry a guide dog required by a disabled person.