A woman’s complaint that she was being discriminated against because of her brother’s past was tossed out by the BC Human Rights Tribunal.

The woman, identified as RS, says she was at the Abbotsford Cactus Club for her brother’s birthday and was asked to leave because her brother had been charged with drug trafficking nine years ago, although he was never convicted.

The Tribunal ruled that the police who asked the group to leave did not know about the woman’s relationship to the brother and thus did not deliberately discriminate.

Police were called when the restaurant saw some of the group smoking pot outside.

Officers asked for people’s identities and asked the group to leave when they found out that a number of them had criminal or drug connections.

Cactus Club is a member of Barwatch, which allows for people considered “undesireable” to be asked to leave.