Category Archives: Human Rights Commission
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal boss faces harassment accusations
Daily Brew:
The Conservative-appointed head of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal is under fire for allegedly harassing her own staff.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper named Alberta lawyer Shirish Chotalia, chairwoman of the tribunal in November 2009. The tribunal hears complaints referred to it by the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Now the Ottawa Citizen’s Chris Cobb reports an independent labour investigator has upheld harassment complaints against Chotalia from two staff members.
Lawyer Philip Chodos concluded she engaged in “baffling, if not bizarre” behaviour. Chotalia faces two more harassment complaints. Her employees last year accused her of creating a toxic atmosphere in the workplace.
More than half the tribunal’s 25-member staff left via sick leave or retirement in her first year on the job, the Citizen reported.
Chodos was appointed to investigate under an agreement with Chotalia and unions representing her staff.
The process is considered unusual since harassment complaints normally are handled by the heads of the affected government department or agency. Continue Reading →
Ezra Levant and Marc Lemire on Marc’s ordeal with the Canadian ‘Human Rights Commission’
These human rights rulings are bonkers… and that’s from the equalities chief!
From The Daily Mail:
- Trevor Phillips says human rights should not be ‘exclusive property of minorities’
- Attacks plan to stop Christian prayers being said before council meetings
By Jack Doyle
Last updated at 7:45 AM on 12th December 2011
Anger: Trevor Phillips said the human rights laws had ‘fallen into disrepute’ and were seen as protecting criminals, terror suspects and illegal immigrants at the expense of everyone else
Human rights laws are being interpreted in a way that is ‘thoroughly bonkers’ – according to Britain’s own human rights chief.
Trevor Phillips, head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, said the laws had ‘fallen into disrepute’ and were seen as protecting criminals, terror suspects and illegal immigrants at the expense of everyone else.
These rights should not be ‘the exclusive property of minorities’.
Mr Phillips said: ‘Almost every morning I am confronted with examples of how the Human Rights Act is being used which any reasonable person would describe as thoroughly bonkers.
‘Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles freed to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.’
Mr Phillips also attacked plans by secularists to use the Human Rights Act to stop Christian prayers being said before council meetings. Continue Reading →
Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn on the potential recall of section 13, the ‘hate thought’ laws.
20111122 – Bill C-304 – Second Reading in House of Commons to strip CHRC of Section 13 censorship
The metamorphosis of the Egyptian revolution at Tahrir Sq.
This MEMRI clip shows how, exactly like Iran’s revolution, Egypt went from a lot of frustrated and angry liberals to ‘fundamustards’ (hard core orthodox Muslims of the Islamic Brotherhood variety) brandishing Al-Queda banners and demanding full sharia law implementation.
And like Iran, I wouldn’t bet against it.
Secret courts to shut down £1m ‘Cashpoint’ for terror suspects .
UK Government currently unable to contest compensation claims due to the secret nature of the evidence.
Daily Mail-Online 19th October 2011
Secret hearings will be held in terror compensation cases, in an attempt to stop the taxpayer being used as a £1million ‘cashpoint’ for fanatics.
The move is designed to end the dilemma faced by the Cabinet Office when MI5 and MI6 hold classified intelligence on terror suspects who are lodging compensation claims, which under civil court rules must be released to them and their lawyers.
It follows public outrage over payouts of millions of pounds to 16 terror suspects, including former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed, who claimed they had been mistreated by security and intelligence officials.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050714/Secret-courts-shut-1m-cashpoint-terror-suspects.html#ixzz1bGO9a5xm
Madness! …Secret diary of a Labour Immigration Minister who rails against Human Rights Act !
A Labour former Immigration Minister last night said Theresa May was right to say human rights laws make a mockery of the way Britain deals with asylum seekers.
Phil Woolas also released extracts from an explosive diary revealing the ‘absurd’ degree to which the immigration service was hampered by court rulings on human rights.
Mr Woolas, Immigration Minister from October 2008 until the 2010 election, was unaware of the cat ruling until he saw it in newspapers. But to back his case that the Human Rights Act and European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) were crippling the immigration system, he released extracts from his private diary as a minister.
Published below, they reveal his anger at learning:
- Osama Bin Laden’s son could use British Freedom of Information rules to see Government files rejecting his visa application, even though he lived in the Middle East.
- A suspected drug lord was freed because the French navy vessel which caught him took too long to bring him to port and charge him.
- A convicted rapist due to be deported could still get British legal aid in India to fight for custody of his estranged son.
- There was a challenge to the Lords against deporting someone to Greece because the Greek asylum system might breach the person’s human rights. Continue Reading →
Ezra Levant on Muslims only apt. rental and the HRC Oct 7 2011
Head of Ontario HRC Barbara Hall speaks on the mosqueteria and the menstruating mosqueteers stuck at the back.
Once again, the idea that anyone at all would be allowed to discuss what Islam demands of its followers in this kind of debate is defeatist. If someone shows up at your chess club with some exotic version of Chinese checkers they made up last week, the issue is not what the infinitely malleable rules of the invaders game are. It is that he is at your chess club cause he came to your chess club and no one made him. So play chess, or go home. The only rules to be debated, are the rules of chess. How much more clear can you get than that? Whether or not burkas or prayers are mandated by Islam means exactly nothing and must must must continue to mean nothing. Religious freedom means free from government persecution for calling your god by another name or worshipping another god.
It was never meant to mean that anyone can do anything if they claim their religion mandates it.
Play chess, or go home.
Wilders verdict tomorrow.
Lots of speculation on this one. According to this news source, he will be freed on all charges. Why am I not as optimistic?
Mark Steyn on Andrew Bolt
Ontario HRC reaches predictable heights
A few years ago, I decided to stop telling jokes of what I have come to call, ‘logical extremes’. What I mean is, someone tells you something absurd or counter intuitive and you answer with, “Wow next thing you know, you will have to hire a dead guy at your gym or be charged with discrimination against the metabolically challenged’. The reason I decided to stop telling them was because I had this awful albeit superstitious feeling that every-time I told one, I was handing some supercilious bureaucrat another data point on how to destroy liberty and control every thought we have.
Then I saw this:
Thanks Blazing, for religiously posting Ezra’s excellent clips. I may have to get cable again soon just for these.