Ten years after his landmark legal victory over the Alberta government, gay rights activist Delwin Vriend is urging the province to include protection for gays in its human rights legislation.
Vriend says it's embarrassing to Alberta and Canada that the rights still aren't spelled out in provincial law.
Vriend made history on April 2, 1998, when the Supreme Court ordered the province to legally protect gays.
That's never officially been done, although the 1998 court decision means gays are by default protected in Alberta.
The province's culture minister says language explicitly protecting gays will be looked at as part of a review of Alberta's human rights laws.
Vriend and his supporters say the decision in his favour 10 years ago influenced other rulings across Canada such as the one that led to the recognition of same-sex marriage.
