discourses are to take a firmer root” (p. 5). In Canada, the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) “tackled” the concept … of comparison in the age equality case of Withler v. Canada, 2008 BCCA 539. Rejecting “similarly situated” (or “groups … frame. However, LEAF did not identify a male comparator even though all of the plaintiffs were women. Accordingly, it is …