” The human rights regime will destroy your savings, your business and your life for no good reason. The verdict is irrelevant; the process is the punishment”.
Came across a great article by Mark Steyn about the kangaroo court system our “Human Rights” tribunals operate across Canada… and how they’ve become a weapon of the politically correct.
He makes the point that you cannot have a fair system where the accuser has unlimited resources vs. the accused. How a system can cause someone accused (most often wrongly-accused) of something vague being financially ruined, without actually being guilty of any crime.
This is true across Canada and happens far too often.
If Canada really believes it needs the human rights tribunals, it should at least level the playing field. The human rights tribunals should pay for the legal costs of the accused if proven innocent.
From Mark’s article “Well Hung”
The case of a pre-op transsexual – ie, still with the old meat and two veg, so not to be confused with the equally litigious post-op transsexual in the other great Ontario “human rights” transsexual jurisprudence landmark who demanded Dr Stubbs perform a labiaplasty on her.
In this case, the transsexual applied to join a fitness club in St Catharines and wanted to use the women’s area. At this point, she revealed to the owner, John Fulton, that she still had a full set of wedding tackle:
Fulton said he wasn’t sure what to do because his female clients might not be comfortable with a man in their changing room. “To me it was not a big deal, I just don’t know how my women would feel about having a guy showering with them,” he said. “He still hadn’t had his operation yet.”
So two years later here we are in Ontario “human rights” hell. The plaintiff is now a plaintifette, having had the operation and relocated to Ottawa. But back in St Catharines it’s John Fulton’s pound of flesh that she and the commissars are determined to extract.
… The tribunal, I think, needs to be brought within the codes and conventions of this country’s legal system. At the moment, it upends them. The burden of proof ought to be on the accuser. The accuser should not be allowed unlimited funds to frivolously torment people for no reason, beggaring them for something that serves no public purpose.
Whatever you think of the marijuana thing, it seems initially to arise from a defectively written law. But that great issue, the issue of where you can smoke medicinal marijuana-the burden of that should not be on Gator Ted. The transsexual labioplasty is perfect nonsense. Any sane person understands exactly what was going on when that doctor said that he was not willing to operate on these two transsexual women.
The idea that people should be essentially punished by a system that does not allow them equality with their accuser is a mark of great shame to this province. If there has to be a tribunal, it should be brought within the bounds of normal legal practice and this province’s 800-year legal tradition.
What will it take before Canada comes to its senses and rids itself of the embarrassing human rights tribunals.
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