Have I got news for you! Ernst Zundel won three out of five judicial reviews, with one more pending! It's been some drama in Toronto, and folks at the Zundel-Haus are flying high tonight! The consequences might well have shaken the Holocaust Enforcers to their knees!
Here is today's press release, with much more to come tomorrow. It is too late to give you an interpretation, but this press release will tell you the rudiments.
I can tell you that we are happy campers!
Sweet victory:
April 13, 1999
Attention: Assignment Editor
Ernst Zündel has won three judicial reviews against decisions of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. The Tribunal is hearing complaints against Mr. Zündel under section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act laid by Sabina Citron and the Toronto Mayor's Committee on Community and Race Relations which allege that he is inciting hatred against Jewish people in the Internet website, the "Zundelsite." The site is owned and operated by Dr. Ingrid Rimland in California, United States.
The rulings, made by Mr. Justice Campbell of the Federal Court of Canada on April 13, 1999 in Toronto, found that Mr. Zündel had a reasonable apprehension that one of the members of the Human Rights Tribunal, Reva Esther Devins, a Toronto lawyer, was biased against him. The apprehension of bias was based on a 1988 press release issued by the Ontario Human Rights Commission when Ms. Devins sat as a Commissioner. In the press release, the Ontario Human Rights Commission "applauded" the criminal conviction of Mr. Zündel for spreading false news about the Holocaust in the publication "Did Six Million Really Die?" and denounced him as a liar.
Mr. Justice Campbell held that the press release was a gratuitous attack on Mr. Zündel which Mr. Zündel was right to believe raised a reasonable apprehension of bias against him on the part of Reva E. Devins.
The Court also quashed two rulings made by the Human Rights Tribunal with Ms. Devins' participation. In these rulings, the Tribunal had held that the truth of the statements complained of was irrelevant and that Mr. Zündel would be unable to call any evidence to prove truth. In the second ruling, the Tribunal had refused to qualify Dr. Alexander Jacob as an expert witness in the history of antiSemitism. The Court held that the "extraordinary circumstances" of the finding of bias required its intervention.
The rulings throw into doubt the entire proceedings before the Tribunal as all rulings made are tainted by the participation by Reva E. Devins and subject to further review by the courts.
Douglas H. Christie, lawyer for Mr. Zündel has written to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, demanding that the complaints be withdrawn.
Mr. Zündel says, "The struggle for the Germans to tell their side of the story of World War II continues. How many millions more will Canadian governments spend on shoring up the Jewish version of history?"
For further information, call the ZundelHaus at 416-922-9850