Today was to be the Day of Resumption of the Inquisition, but in the wake of the Bell Telephone defeat the CHRC kommissars have suffered, it seems that matters are somewhat on hold.
Ernst and his legal team were in court today where a minor victory was scored in the "Forthwith!" matter. (See Press release below)
Tomorrow is a rather big day. Faxes are running full speed. Ernst said "the media is all over us"- and I can certainly tell, since our Zundelsite traffic has doubled.
Here is today's Z-missive - sizzling all over Canada:
Press Release
Attention: Assignment Editor! Send a Reporter!
April 7, 1998, 10:00 AM
8 Adelaide St. East (Canadian Heritage Centre)
The Canadian Human Rights Commission is going to hear a formal motion to stay proceedings in the ongoing Zundelsite internet case because of the recent judgment by Madame Justice Donna McGillis in Federal Court of Canada, who ordered Tribunal hearings quashed in a landmark pay-equity case involving Bell Canada versus the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Justice McGillis found that Human Rights Tribunals are-by the way they are set up, selected and paid-subject to being perceived as biased by a reasonable person.
Here are some excerpts of the judgment in the Bell Canada case.
"Everyone appearing before administrative boards is entitled to be treated fairly. It is an independent and unqualified right. . . (I)t is impossible to have a fair hearing or to have procedural fairness if a reasonable apprehension of bias has been established. If there has been a denial of a right to a fair hearing, it cannot be cured by the tribunal's subsequent decision. . . Procedural fairness is an essential aspect of any hearings before a tribunal. The damage created by apprehension of bias cannot be remedied. The hearing, and any subsequent order resulting from it, is void.. . . The application for judicial review is allowed in file T-1257-97. The proceedings before the Tribunal are quashed. There shall be no further proceedings in this matter, until the problems identified in these Reasons for Order. . . are corrected by legislative amendments to the Act."
It would appear that this judgment applies to all Human Rights Tribunals, since all are selected, staffed and paid for by the same process and rules. This should result in interesting and far-reaching arguments affecting the whole Human Rights industry in Canada - ever more perceived by angry, disaffected Canadian taxpayers as a predatory and parasitic industry serving minorities with special political agendas.
Also: Today, April 6, 1998, the Canadian Human Rights Commission had to justify itself before Federal Court Judge Gibson why they should not be in contempt of court for not paying Zundel $1,750 in costs Mr. Justice Muldoon had assessed against them on January 30, 1998 in Vancouver, "to be paid forthwith!"
The presiding judge, Mr. Justice Gibson, made short shrift of the excuses of the Commission lawyer, Eddie Taylor, and ordered that the Commission pay Zundel an additional $1,000 in costs, "forthwith!"
For further information, call 416-922-9850.
Thought for the Day:
"Jewry has pressed long and hard for the prohibition of 'Holocaust denial" here to match the suppression of it in France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Spain and Switzerland. . . They have done this with such commitment that they now stand or fall with it. They cannot tolerate any open discussion and questioning of their allegations, exposing their fragility and falsity. To protect the vulnerable edifice, they have to condition the masses to accept it as a matter proven for all time and uniquely beyond any critical examination; and to frighten and force any rebels into silence."
(submitted to the Zundelsite)
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