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 Connie FournierMember
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 Posted: 06/ 09/ 08 5:55 pm Post subject: Kangaroo Court CHRT Denies Intervener Status to BCCLA |
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BC Civil Liberties Association given the boot by “Human Rights” Tribunal
Biased and Unfair … Have the Tribunals become Kangaroo Courts?
Document available online at:
http://blog.freedomsite.org/2008/06/bc-civil-liberties-association-given.html
http://canadianhumanrightscommission.blogspot.com/2008/06/bc-civil-liberties-association-given.html
In a ruling released today by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, Canada’s foremost Civil Liberties organization – The BC Civil Liberties Association has been denied interested party status in the Constitutional Challenge brought by Marc Lemire. The Constitutional Challenge filed by Lemire is against Section 13 – Canada’s notorious internet censorship legislation.
In another shockingly short decision written by Athanasios D. Hadjis, the Tribunal boots out the BCCLA:
| Quote: | [5] As was noted in that ruling as well, nothing prevents the BCCLA from sharing any specific arguments that it feels are relevant to the constitutional issue with those parties in this case who are challenging the constitutionality of ss. 13 and 54.
[6] The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association’s request is therefore denied.
CHRT | 2008 CHRT 22 |
Continued...
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| Posted: 06/ 09/ 08 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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Why is it that I have almost come to expect these types of rulings. 
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| Heartofsong83 Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Total posts: 13384 Location: Up in the woods... Age: 26 Gender: Male
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| Posted: 06/ 09/ 08 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Canada is turning into a kangaroo kingdom where these HRC's are kings... |
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| Posted: 06/ 09/ 08 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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fourhorses
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| Posted: 06/ 09/ 08 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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On May 21, 2008, in a written submission on the Apprehension of Bias motion, Mr. Lemire stated:
| Quote: | “However, the actions of this Tribunal since January have caused increasing concern to the respondent.”
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With the increasingly prejudicial rulings by the Canadian “Human Rights” Tribunal, many in the public have openly questioned the veracity of Mr. Hadjis’s decisions.
As for the judge, Athanios Hajdis was brisk but impatient. He knows how he's going to rule, and he appears eager to add Marc Lemire to the mound of Section 13 losers. "We're done," he said at several points during the day. I don't get the impression he's planning on letting Mr Lemire buck the 100 per cent Section 13 conviction rate.
Mark Steyn | Macleans Magazine | March 26, 2008
According to several blog reports, the Tribunal chair, Athanasios Hadjis, was visibly impatient, repeatedly saying "this case is closed". In real courts, it's up to the two sides to announce "we rest our case," not for a bored judge to merely declare it. But don't bother Hadjis with such trifles. He's not a judge, so why should he pretend to act like one?
Ezra Levant March 27, 2008
Journalist and blogger Ezra Levant described Hadjis’s decision to not allow the Canadian Constitutional Foundation interested party status as “a repulsive blend of arrogance, laziness and prejudice.” Levant continued, “let's be honest: Hadjis is bored, and doesn't want to waste time going through the motions of a fair hearing, and the CCF means he potentially has hours of extra reading to do.”
Ezra Levant analyzed the real reason behind why Hadjis doesn’t want to allow in other interested parties:
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On the other team we have Barbara Kulaszka, a sole practitioner, representing Lemire himself; Paul Fromm, a non-lawyer; and occasional participation from Victoria lawyer Doug Christie. All are working essentially pro bono -- they couldn't even afford to pay for transcripts.
It's impressive how well that rag-tag team has done in the face of such overwhelming odds. But I don't think that a neutral observer would say that Lemire's team is "more than able" to match the force against them.
[The fact is, arrayed against Lemire are not only the entire resources of the federal Justice Department, but the eight-figure budget of the CHRC with a 170-person staff; and the other intervenors against him -- including two lawyers from the enormous firm Blake Cassels & Graydon.]
Pound for pound, it just hasn't been a fair fight. Which is exactly why Hadjis doesn't want the legal eagles from the CCF -- or anyone else, like the Canadian Civil Liberties Association -- coming in. Not just because, with the likes of Eugene Meehan on board, the CHRC's case would be torn to ribbons. But also because Eugene Meehan and the others at the CCF have a perfect reputation politically. Unlike Fromm, Christie and Kulaszka, they aren't outside the political mainstream. Hadjis wants to keep Lemire marginalized, both legally and politically.
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fourhorses
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| Posted: 06/ 09/ 08 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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Why does Hadjis want to bury this one so bad ?
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| Posted: 06/ 09/ 08 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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Notice that this was released on a Friday
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| Mark Fournier Member
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| Posted: 06/ 09/ 08 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Classic bunker mentality.
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 TomFooleryJoined: 18 Dec 2005 Total posts: 5872
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| Posted: 06/ 09/ 08 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe he's going to exhonerate Lemire and is cutting things off so no more reputational damage will come upon his beloved bureacratic org.
Anyway no need to speculate - the HRT is in a conflict of interest hearing a constitutional challenge about themselves, anyways. |
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