40 Replies to “Free The CHRC!”

  1. SO porbabtionary employees are no longer probationary…..ridiculous. This is a problem with Fed govt employment practices as much as it is about the CHRC.

  3. I wouldn’t want her or the complainant working for me. Both sound petty and not worth the salary. Best to simply shut the whole organization down and save the taxpayer some $$$.

  4. She sounds like a real treat. Perhaps instead of a new EA she needs a personal management coach to help her communicate with staff – don’t laugh, my former company did just that after a manager piled up a thick file of complaints. Some people should understand their limitations and take jobs that do not require people skills. Besides, women are often more difficult bosses than men (too emotional and too little humor).
    The CHRC should disappear because it has become an affront to basic rights like equality, rule of law and free speech. Re-assign the current manger and appoint someone who will start to gut the department.

  5. A less charitable explanation might be the boss was seeking to have direct input to his upcoming
    assessment plus checking how deep the poison went and her hunch was it went all the way to the
    bottom. The lower grade scorpions working every day at jobs promoting the triumph of evil
    complaining about the unfairness of the head scorpion has a certain Kafkaesk quality to it.

  7. Funny how all these complaints are about a “Conservative” appointment. The union should be investigated because from what the story says, she didn’t really do anything wrong, “allegedly”. He said, she said. Interesting the guy is still in government, I’d like to know which agency hired the pansy.
    Reminds me of all the “complaints” received against the Sun News Network when they took that dancer to task about the million she had received from taxpayers.
    Lefties are great at underhanded manipulation. They have no morals. They are entitled to their entitlements.

  8. My.
    Seems a lot of very precious people seem to work in these tax paid for jobs. They suffer stress and then somehow move to other tax paid for jobs.
    Mmm wonder if there is anything that industry needs to learn about work place practices from government run ones ?
    Nope guess not.
    Wonder if there is any message here to the wage payers ?

  9. Right you are, aviator @ 5:41.
    “I felt this was personally demeaning to me,” he [Pembroke] said.
    Lord, if that doesn’t sound like a whiny little b*tch of a man(?), nothing does.
    Punt the lot of them.

  10. Did anyone read the story to see what the complaints were?
    – “waving her hand over her head in a dismissive and what I consider a demeaning manner.”
    – “she raised her voice and made gestures.”
    – “instructed him to perform certain administrative tasks, leaving him in some confusion about what he was supposed to do.”
    I guess is where we’re headed as a society, where raising your voice and making gestures are grounds for human rights complaints.
    Surely, our new and vaunted Museum of Human Rights needs to dedicate a wing to the crime of leaving employees in “some confusion about what he was supposed to do.”

  11. It never fails that Conservative appointments to Human Rights Commissions are predetermined to support the same things as lefties. They appoint a human rights lawyer instead of me. They’d have to put in a box for me to tick labeled “Suck It Up Buttercup”

  12. It’s hilarious how the civil servants are so far gone that they actually believe they have public support.

  13. My gosh…that guy is sure sensitive. What a joke. Is it not time for people to stand up and tell these wimps to get a life you bonehead. If feminists, union types and girly types like this guy think its going to make their fat lazy butts better…they better think again. I, for one, if I worked in the civil service I would talk to nil, unless I had to and I would never socialize…it’s the end of the world as we know it..

  15. I think there’s more going on here than meets the eye, and that there may be an element of (left/right) politics (and eely protest) involved. Not only is Chotalia a Harper appointee – something, I’m guessing, that some of the embedded, G-funded mini-bureaucrats wouldn’t be too happy about — but some of her decisions, including her dismissal of a case alleging the government violates the rights of aboriginal children through underfunding, have greatly angered the usual suspects on the left (I won’t link to one blawger in particular) including, apparently, more than a few of the embedded “human rights”-remora bureaucrats who work under her:

    “According to (PSAC), five employees — roughly a quarter of the staff – have filed harassment-related complaints against Chotalia…”

    I’m not saying, I’m just saying.

  16. Good if they start eating their own they’ll leave lawabiding Canadians alone. That’s gotta be the most pathetic case of harassment I’ve ever read and I’ve read some real simpering stunners.

  17. Stephen Harper, crazy like a fox. Instead of simply shutting down the CHRC, which would invite a firestorm of Leftard protest, he appoints a female of 3rd-world antecedents (unassailably politically correct, in other words), who proceeds to drive many of the employees to quit. Workload on the remainder piles up, stressing them out (doesn’t take much to stress out a snivel serpent), and more quit.
    A few more months pass, the CHRC becomes so totally dysfunctional that even the aforementioned Leftards demand it be shut down. Win, win!

  19. Well EBD and Rose – starting with a report called “Equality for all” – or something like that then following the career of various loosely reined staffers “freedom of speech is an american concept” and then the penultimut denunciation of lying and twisting of the truht – it surprises me the CHRC even continues to exist.
    NO major enquiry???
    It has an acting bobbing head that flies weekly from Winnipeg to Ottawa and then returns giving the CHRC perhaps 3 days of service/week and YES he too is a conservative appointee.
    We are doomed by chicata banality.

  20. Power corrupts….Shirish Ghotalia should be fired….and not allowed to go to another government job…it seems there is a qualification problem….///

  21. “A few more months pass, the CHRC becomes so totally dysfunctional that even the aforementioned Leftards demand it be shut down. Win, win!
    Posted by: gordinkneehill at January 8, 2012 7:04 PM ”
    gord…while I generally agree with the sentiment,never forgot…the more chaos the leftards create,the happier they are. Yes,they would be screaming,but screaming for a new social committee to oversee and “study” why the CHRC became a worse stink-pit then it all ready is!

  22. EBD might be correct but unionized, government workplaces are an alternate universe. The threshold for harassment is set very low. You have to be careful when dealing with sensitive souls.
    I know it may be difficult to believe that a person with my sweet, agreeable temperament would ever get into such trouble but I accidentally offended a couple of guys I worked. Although, in my defense, if you take two weeks stress leave because of being called lazy and wimpy then the assessment of your character is probably correct.

  23. The moment I hear the term “Human Rights Lawyer” I cringe. All it makes me think of is leeches, sucking the blood out of society and doing nothing useful in return.
    Not sure why the Cons are not moving faster to shut down these dreadful commissions.

  24. Things certainly are “progressing”. It used to be that only -men- who raised their voices had complaints filed against them. Breaking new ground, wussy white manchild files complaint against brown woman for being mean to him.
    Couldn’t have anything to do with her being a Harper appointee could it? Naw…
    Nice chop job by the Ottawa Sniveler there.

  25. Everything about this story is ridiculous. The boss is a twitchy goofball, the employee is a whiny hypersensitive twerp (first, at 35 he’s still a probationary ANYTHING, and second, his “kid pickup” responsibilities are irrelevant – either they were after his 7.5 hours in which case the boss can’t make him stay, or they were during in which case his only “responsibility” is to do the job he’s being paid for).
    And why in god’s name does the head of an organization with only 25 employees need a freaking Executive Assistant?

  26. Sounds to me that she’s perfect for the job, nasty, vindictive and arbitrary. Isn’t that how these Human Rights tribunals operate.
    It does bring a warm spot to my heart to see at least one of this bunch being on the other side for a change.

  27. If Pembroke, the weenie was a minority group type , this would have never happened. How stupid does one have to be to take a job (?) that specializes in beating only white middle class males. This unelected Star Chamber is a blight on a free society and it’s hard to have even slight sympathy for any employee working (?) there. Cut all funding.

  28. I think this is simply a Union/Management dispute, exacerbated by the Manager being Conservative.
    The complaints,as someone said earlier,are absurd.
    Maybe she was trying to instill some ethics or a work ethic in the communist workers of the HRC,and they are just too sensitive for it.
    I don’t have any sympathy for a bunch of civil servants whose job is to ruin the lives of any un-PC person they come across.

  29. Say what?! Sorry, but I read the article and I was hard-pressed to find anything that amounted to “harassment”. She made dismissive gesture which hurt some guy’s feelings? Vague or confusing telephone instructions? Really?
    All of these overly sensitive toddlers need to work in the oil and gas industry (just as an example) for a few months, and HARDEN THE F**K UP.
    And then the entire lot of them need to be fired, and the CHRC shut down for good.

  30. “And why in G*d’s name does the head of an organization with only 25 employees need a freaking Executive Assistant?”
    Actually DN, that is what government calls people formerly known as secretaries. The fact that the former EA went on stress leave and didn’t come back should raise a red flag too.
    Also it is not hard to be a probie at 35. Actually, a lot of companies have a probation period. My job in Texas had me on probation for six months. Anyone who has made a career change can also attest to the fact that you can’t necessarily start at the top either. With that many rats leaving the ship or complaining, it is probably a safe bet that this human rights lawyer only figures clients have rights, not employees. She wouldn’t be the first department head that couldn’t lead a one man rush to a two hole outhouse.
    Just sayin.

  31. Like I’ve always said, the aboriginal First Nations should be squawking about immigration at the top of their lungs. It is they that have the most to lose with Islamic and the mass immigration from India. Any guesses as to how continental Asian Indians treat their aboriginals?
    This story has only made news because of the First Nations angle. Imagine how many white Canadian males this woman has or will ruin.

  33. Priceless
    now I know why when I ran an automotive detail shop I could hire low level works, the government “stole” them all:-)))

  34. Will someone who knows this racket better than I do please tell me exactly WTF a “human rights lawyer” is? Is that an advocate of some kind for “social justice”?
    And while you’re at it, can you also describe what exactly is a “human right” in Canada these days, so I’ll know what to look for when I go to the Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg when it opens (in five years or whenever).

  36. I have known Shirish for more than 30 years. According to the 6:52 link by EBD, Shirish personally mediated more than 1/2 the cases in 2010 – almost every one successfully.
    Meanwhile the Human Rights lawyer (getting paid by taxpayers?) Paul Champ – is whining because Chotalia cancelled additional hearings his 4 year long case.
    Knowing Shirish’s style – I am glad she is making enemies with PSAC employees. Sounds like she is properly representing my taxpayer interests… 😉

  37. Maybe the Tories appointed the most toxic person possible, so that the hypocrisy of a “toxic work environment” at a human rights commission would be there for all to see. And to laugh at.
    It has happened before: the Ontario commission suffered something similar in the ’80s or ’90s. No real surprise, since leftists always think everyone else should worship the ground they walk on.
    Anyway, the CHRC doesn’t do anything that the state should be concerned with in a free society with the possible exception of making sure the government doesn’t discriminate in its hiring, and that could be transferred to the public service staff commission.

  38. Reminds me of a bunch of Nazis or Communists during a purge with its inevitable backstabbing with character assassination. This is what happens when you give Zealots power.
    Power tripping never ends with the victims of this evil. It eats its own.

  39. “More than half of the 25-member staff, including managers, left, took sick leave or retired in her first year on the job.”
    Damn! Give that woman a bonus!!
    I’d suggest putting her in charge of the PMO next.At this rate she’ll have that Federal deficit under control in no time.

  40. Isn`t HRT versus Public Sector unionistas one of those cases similar to a Nazi-Commie rumble; you don`t take sides, you pray for an asteroid?

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