"This might be an oxymoron, but rights rhetoric lives by oxymoron"

The condo decision is really quite unbelievable. This is a situation where two people purchased a condo AND a parking space...the locations of which were known. The Human "Rights" Commission has interfered in a commercial transaction...that is far, FAR beyond their jurisdiction. HRC's should be disbanded entirely. They are disgraceful.

That condo decision was likely based upon the old principle:
"It's NOT WHAT you know but rather WHO you know."

Kafka would find Canada an odd place for equality and fairness in jurisprudence.

I'm curious, and the article by Ian Hunter does not specify, whether the parking spot was rented or owned by Ms. Nolet. That is, was she simply paying for example $100 per month to use the spot. Or, did she pay for legal ownership of the parking spot in addition to her condo unit. Let me be clear, the HRC decision is egregious in either case.

But, many condo developments will stratify the parking spots themselves for sale (complete with full legal address and PID number). If this is the case, the HRC is not only interfering in a commercial transaction (as correctly pointed out by John above), but also interfering in private property ownership.

As outrageous as the HRC fiat is, it pales alongside the gravity of the evictions at the Mohawk reserve.

We have a huge elephant in the middle of the room that nobody wants to tackle: ours is not a nation with one set of laws for everyone. We have two sets of laws; one for the "First" Nations, the other for everyone else.

That is a MASSIVE problem.

I commented on this "hierarchy" sometime back, I believe I listed them 1-10. Using deductive reasoning similar to the writer I concluded that Race trumps Gender based on my observations during the Democratic primaries.

Shesh...

It has long been clear in human rights jurisprudence that there is a hierarchy of prohibited grounds of discrimination; race and sex always trump, say, religion or age. We shall now await the formulation of a hierarchy of disability; obesity, we now know, trumps a sore shoulder.

...and remember in the USA, Black beats white. Gay beats white. Black beats gay. (HT Jay Currie blog)

Rock, paper scissors?

As much as I hate and despise the HRC's,how can they interfere in private property when we DO NOT have any such right in Caunckistan?? NO WHERE in any document is private property stated as a RIGHT in this soviet republic. Thanks Turdeau.

Perhaps the parking spot's comments had the capacity to cause hurt or harm?

So two adults couldn't resolve their differences? Why involve a kangaroo court? How many people do not feel deprived if they lack a parking spot? If human rights commissions think average citizens are going to let them push them around forever, imagine the looks on their faces when they realise John Q. Public can and will fight back.
Dare I be controversial? Yes. Throw out the Indian Act. Integrate everyone. Let everyone be equal under the law. I'd like to see Mohawk elders pull that racist crap knowing they could get sued for it.
Just my thoughts.

Ian Hunter is a formidable champion of commonsense and decency, we can count our lucky stars for his likes. Chuck Strahl is very disappointing here, I would have thought he, at least would stand up and tell the natives to go to Hell. I wouldn't have thought it possible, but the native has become an embarrassment to him/herself. Where is the noble and brave sentiment we hear so much about?

it’s how discrimination gets to be called affirmative action....and and self-preservation...and....wait I can think of another word for racism..there is is "It's a cultural thing".

Sorry for making anyone sick with the above dog vomit, but there are people that run that crap out and expect people to believe it.

justthinkin

not only is there no "property ownership" in kanada, there is no individual "improvements" ownership in a condo situation, because the corporation "owns" it and you are a stake holder in the corporation

but, yah, the HCR has NO legal say in the matter, and it should be hauled before a real court

At one time everyone was welcome in Caugenawagua.. even me. Everyone, almost everyone, smiled and laughed a lot.

Today Canada has a cancer here and there. What a shame. You shoulda been there in the sixties and earlier.

A beautiful green low bushy area with a big bay off the St.Lawrence River filled with catfish turtles snakes ducks geese and all the wildlife that appeals to young boys with fishing pole and hunting knife.

All this at the far end of the great Mercier bridge opposite Montreal / LaSalle.

If Liberal governance had been in any way competent, this cancer should have never been allowed to take hold.

Trudeau, Cretien, Mr. Dithers, congratulations.

If what is suggested in the latest news about this Jaffer guy, I'm beginning to think that some people jumped on the conservative bandwagon for their own benefit. I have absolutely no respect for those fooling with drugs. You use it, you support its use. I've seen too many peoples lives ruined by it, he should be banned from any affiliation with the party.

Nobody jumps on a bandwagon for somebody else's benefit. If there's one thing worse than abuse of drugs: it's abuse of puritanism. I've seen far too many peoples' lives ruined by sobriety. As Frank Sinatra said: I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. Ban Him From The Party: because as Boris Yeltsin said, "Everything which was not permitted was forbidden. Whatever was permitted was mandatory. Citizens were shackled in their actions by the universal passion for banning things".

Oh please Vitruvius, I have no problem with someone having a drink; I surely have, and I miss those smoke filled days of my youth, and I'm certainly not a puritan, I'm a Catholic, we believe in enjoying life, not ending it. His actions, if true, are inexcusable, you want to vote for that type, go ahead, but don't expect me to vote for a party that condones this crap,

The Status of the Indians and why it looks like a Socialist Experiment going badly

a)He has no property rights, but gets a free house
b)He gets free Health Care
c)He gets free drugs
d)He gets a free university education
e)He gets a free paying job, just be a good or bad Indian

If you apply the Carat & Stick approach to pushing socialism, every decision that favors the Indian is the stick. If you want equal status to the Indian you must give up RIGHTS…

Obama has an agenda that looks this way

a)Free University Education (added onto health care bill)
b)Free Health Care (the result when Medicaid costs destroy State Budgets)
c)Free paying jobs (Van Jones & green jobs chasing Fairy Farts)

Welcome to Indian Status... FOOLS