First, the Communist Party of Canada comes to the defense of the CHRC, demanding the federal government rescind its order to close the satellite offices of the CHRC. With friends like these…
Second: from the National Post Editorial Board, concerning the recent case involving the new Human Right to Bad Table Manners: The Human Rights Circus Rolls On…
Faced with such thin facts on the ground, courts often have to throw up their hands and admit there is no way they can administer justice. But not so human rights agencies. They are not bound by the normal rules of justice. They may choose to use whatever evidence strikes their fancies, including hearsay and speculation.
Third: After setting a precedent by dictating bus routes to municipalities, Human Rights complaints seem to appear any time a municipal decision is made. Cancel or change a bus route? Human rights complaint.
Fourth: Next, after using the Human Rights system to force her way into the tryouts for boy’s soccer, Courtney Greer will probably launch another complaint if she doesn’t make the team. Or, just like the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations, the coach will let her on the team without a tryout “to avoid being forced to by a Human Rights Tribunal.”
After that, if she is deemed offside during a game, the referee will probably ignore the call to avoid another reprimand by the Tribunal. I sense a Tribunal-mandated MVP award coming soon…
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The gig will be up pretty quick when the first boy files a human rights complaint for not making it onto the girls team: eventually real courts would rule that either boys/girls teams are separate or not, nothing halfway.
The Human Rights system will identify women as a “victim” group, and therefore entitled to exclusive groups to compensate for their systemic social disadvantage.
One rule for me, another for thee, is their motto.