Business · Nationwide · August 17, 2026
Canadian Board Rules CRA Discriminated Against Worker Over Vaccine Exemption
What Alinsky tactic is being used
One of the thirteen rules is in play here.
Rule 4
“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
The story is a worker holding an employer to the employer's own written rules: the CRA had a vaccination policy that provided for religious accommodation, and the tribunal found the agency's denial of that accommodation was discrimination. The finding did not rest on how anyone felt about vaccines; it rested on the gap between a published accommodation provision and what the agency actually did with one request. The same dynamic drives the U.S. framework, where Title VII's accommodation duty was tightened by Groff v. DeJoy in 2023.
Counter-Rule 4 · Radical Integrity
Close the gap between stated values and actual practice before anyone else finds it. This tactic only works where the gap is real.
Close the gap on your own side first and in writing. This month: get your employer's accommodation policy and read it before you need it; keep your own request narrow, truthful and consistent with what you actually practice, since an overstated claim is the one thing that sinks an otherwise strong file. If you serve on a church or ministry board that employs people, ask whether your own written accommodation and grievance procedure exists and is followed, and get the answer into the minutes.
Chapter 3 sets out the rules; Chapter 15 answers each of them in turn. This is that pairing applied to this story.
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