One simple reason.
He wants to get ride of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.
The purpose of The Tribunal is to resolve applications brought under the Ontario Human Rights Code.
The Code is sort of like the seat belt law; if we didn't have the seat belt law, a lot of dumb folks would not wear their belts. The very fact that we have such a law keeps them in their cars in case of accident.
Ditto helmet laws.
What the Code does is keep dumb people [racists and other kinds of ists] from practicing their isms.
Ontario is not nirvana. Even though the law says that, for example, if you have an apartment for rent, you have to give Black people an opportunity to rent said apartment, many landlords don't. Example thereof being my landlady who won't rent to "those people". There are clubs that won't "them" in either. Homophobics and anti semites exist in Ontario too.
The Code helps mitigate the damage these fools can cause.
Mr. Hudak, a Michael Harrisian, doesn't seem to get that.
From a purely retail point of view, electorally speaking, how dya think getting rid of the Tribunal is going to play in the Jewish/Black/Sikh/Gay/Progressive/Etc. communities?
As a Liberal and as a liberal I commend the Tories on their choice for new leader.
Four more years.
WFDS
I agree with your post.... There is one frightening fact about the Conservative agenda. It is an agenda that has worked for them in the US, and in the federal scene in Canada. They spout their hard right garbage, and slowly skew the DISCUSSION to the right. Eventually, many susceptible voters succumb, and say, "let's give them a shot" - usually when they are very upset with the current regimes.
ReplyDeleteIn order to combat this we need to hope the left is equally active... The end result will be the emergence of a (continued) strong center presence. Federally, over the past many years the NDP has been marginalized as a "voice" (not necessarily electorally, and I don't hope for that). The discourse in Parliament has led to one where both the right wing and the media make ideas of the left a "joke", and harangue against taxes. This has led to the shift to the right, and the "gung-ho", "cowboy" culture we are seeing in the USA, where they claim to love their rights and their services, but then continually cut back on taxes and diminish both.
To continue to be a strong voice in the center, the center cannot continue to slide to the right, as the party of the left continues to lay duds...
I agree 100%, that is why I am not a right wing Conservative.
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding, Dalton McGuinty has already taken the axe to these ministries and amalgamated those two bodies into one. As to getting rid of it, hell no, better to neuter it first, by taking away it's ability to distribute monetary awards to non-plaintiffs for finding them something to do.
ReplyDeleteAs a conservative it saddens me hudak wants to abolish the hrto, but it also is good in ways. In the USA if your are disciminated against you can get up to 25 million. Now that is very rare but thats what you can potentially get, the hrto has never awarded more than 45,000 for damages and it was to someone who was the victim of a violent crime where the accused was convicted of already. So abolishing the hrto will mean higher rewards for those discriminated against but also more cost for everyone, more cost for the accused, the accuser, more waste of judges time (discrimination cases are a waste of time in comparision to say rape or murder- especially when there is already an effective organization to deal with discrimination hrto).
ReplyDeleteHudak also fails to explain how he will train judges with no background in discrimination law to preside over discrimination cases.
As a note to the author, tim hudak is a jew, he is just one who tries to keep it undercover like john tory and other jews in the conservative party.
There are good and bad to the hrto, why should someone who is discriminated be limited to 45k. However it will also make poor people pay for lawyers they cannot afford and discrimination cases are very hard to prove in addition to the fact that having to pay for lawyers will only encourage wealthy racist to continue being racist.
I don't get how a law and order conservative wants to help people violating the law to get away easier.