Today, Athanasios Hadjis, the chair of the tribunal hearing the matter, threw out the CCF’s request to join in as an intervenor. Hadjis’s brief ruling is a repulsive blend of arrogance, laziness and prejudice. 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.

Throughout the March 25th hearing, Hadjis repeatedly sighed “we’re done” — even when the lawyers of the case weren’t done. I wasn’t there, so I don’t know how many times Hadjis looked at the clock, but I’m sure it was in the dozens. But can you really blame Hadjis? The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has a 100% conviction rate for section 13 thought crimes. They’re just going through the motions anyways. Can’t they just hurry up, so he can declare Lemire guilty?

Ezra’s post points out many crimes of which the HRC and Hadjis himself are guilty of.

Favoritism for the prosecution, yet bias against the privately funded defense. Laziness and ennui. Withholding information from the defendant, even though obligated by his commissions own rules to forward that information. Providing information to the press before instead of providing it to the defendant. The corruption is so inherent that it has become a cancer. And sadly, the government has chosen to turn away from the problem, instead of stepping up and culling the disease. Section 13(1) is the cancer, and it needs to be removed.

How something like this can happen in a civilized Western country continues to astound me. Oh well, at least I got a cool mug out of it… It arrived yesterday.

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