Ezra digs up this interesting tidbit about the commission investigator that is in charge of the Steyn/Maclean’s case. Turns out she’s a disgraced cop. She wouldn’t know ethics from elbows, and yet she’s investigating a major publication on a human rights issue?

Sandra “Sandy” Kozak had an ongoing affair with a criminal. Not an ex-con — hell, everyone deserves a second chance — but a serial criminal who was under investigation and criminal charges while she was dating him. Perhaps love got the better of her — we’ve all heard the bizarre stories of women who are attracted to prisoners, and even marry them in jail-house ceremonies. Maybe Kozak was such a woman; but the ethical answer would be to choose a life of law enforcement, or a life of loyalty to a criminal. Because she couldn’t see the conflict between her duty to the public and her oath, and her personal loyalty to a criminal, she was charged with “discreditable conduct”, and eventually agreed to a plea bargain, whereby she agreed to leave the police in return for a severance package and the charge being dropped. She was blind to her own conduct, but the police force wasn’t. That’s called the rule of law. As the Citizen articles point out, someone drummed out of one police force that way wasn’t likely to be hired by any other police force, even if she had the politically important quality of being a woman. She was just too corrupted, and she wouldn’t even acknowledge it.

So of course the CHRC hired her. I’m sorry, but I can’t think of any commentary or analysis that is more damning than that naked fact: a discredited, defrocked cop, who couldn’t see that her personal relationship with a criminal was a conflict with her being a police officer, was hired by the CHRC. I bet the CHRC didn’t even see that as a negative — they probably thought of that kind of malleable morality was a plus: no nagging conscience to ask “are we sure this is ethical?” when planting evidence on websites, stealing Internet broadband, or corrupting the process of natural justice.

Ok Canada, enough now. Time to end these courts once and for all. We are a laughing stock.

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