The Canadian Centre for Ethics and Sports created the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport. This document was written by lawyers and begins with a list of Definitions

• Boundary Transgressions, Consent, Criminal Code, Disclosure, Discrimination, Grooming, Legal Duty to Report, Maltreatment, Minor, Neglect, Participation, Physical Maltreatment, Power Imbalance, Prohibited Behaviour, Psychological Maltreatment, Reporting, Reporting Obligation, Respondent, Sexual Maltreatment, Vulnerable participant

CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Definition of Harassment
​Harassment is a form of discrimination when it is linked to one or more of the grounds of discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA). It occurs when someone says or does something that offends or humiliates another person. Usually, the harasser must say or do these offensive things many times, but a serious one-time incident may also be harassment. Harassment can be direct or indirect, obvious or subtle, physical or psychological. It can occur in many ways, such as through spoken words, text, gestures, and images.
Harassment occurs when someone

• makes unwelcome remarks or jokes about your race, religion, sex, age, disability or any other of the grounds of discrimination
• threatens or intimidates you because of your race, religion, sex, age, disability or any other of the grounds of discrimination
• makes unwelcome physical contact with you, such as touching, patting, or pinching

These are some examples of workplace harassment that may amount to discrimination when the following actions are linked to one or more of the grounds listed in the Canadian Human Rights Act:

• creating a toxic work environment (e.g. tolerating hostile, insulting or degrading comments or conduct)
• spreading rumours or gossip about an individual or group
• making offensive jokes or remarks
• cyber bullying (threatening, spreading rumours or talking negatively about an individual online)
• threats made in person, by phone, email, or through another medium to a worker (including from individuals unassociated with the workplace, such as a spouse or family member, when the incident occurs during the course of work and/or affects the safety of the workplace)
• persistently criticizing, undermining, belittling, demeaning or ridiculing a person
• unwelcome physical contact
• sexual innuendo or insinuation

CANADA HUMAN RIGHTS ACT
            Harassment

• 14 (1) It is a discriminatory practice,
  • (a) in the provision of goods, services, facilities or accommodation customarily available to the general public,
  • (b) in the provision of commercial premises or residential accommodation, or
  • (c) in matters related to employment,
  to harass an individual on a prohibited ground of discrimination.
  
  Sexual Harassment
• (2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), sexual harassment shall, for the purposes of that subsection, be deemed to be harassment on a prohibited ground of discrimination.
• 1980-81-82-83, c. 143, s. 7

            Retaliation
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            14.1 It is a discriminatory practice for a person against whom a complaint has been filed under Part III, or any person        acting on their behalf, to retaliate or threaten retaliation against the individual who filed the complaint or the alleged victim.

• 1998, c. 9, s. 14