MONTREAL — Last year’s Supreme Court of Canada decision in favour of a controversial Quebec comedian forced the province’s human rights commission to close 194…
The findings are contained in the commission’s activity report for the time period and marks the first time the government body has been able to quantify the number of cases affected by last October’s ruling in support of Mike Ward. Commission chair Philippe-Andre Tessier had previously said in April that the top court’s decision would likely force the organization to abandon dozens of cases.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
“These cases, previously, could be investigated by the commission and ultimately by the tribunal , but obviously, these cases are no longer covered,” Tessier said in response to the activity report released on Friday. “That, indeed, has human consequences for people who are victims of this kind of comments to no longer have access to this resource and we are sorry.”
Race-related complaints pertaining to a person’s skin colour, ethnicity or national origin ranked second, accounting for 27 per cent of complaints covered by the report and addressing subject matters such as employment, racial profiling and racial slurs. The report also addressed the commission’s efforts to tackle youth rights, a matter of concern it raised during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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