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THOSE TOLERANT CANADIANS: Canada: ?Human Rights? Tribunal orders woman?s house seized after s?

By Glenn Reynolds

THOSE TOLERANT CANADIANS: Canada: ?Human Rights? Tribunal orders woman?s house seized after she said Muslim employee?s lunch smelled bad.

It didn’t hold up in court — quite. Superior Court rules Ontario Human Rights Tribunal hearing was unfair.

A Mississauga businesswoman whose home was ordered seized to pay an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal award to a former employee can keep her house ? for now.

The Superior Court struck down the ?fatally flawed? decision as so unfair to defendant Maxcine Telfer ? who represented herself in the hearing ? that it was ?simply not possible to logically follow the pathway taken by the adjudicator.?

That October 2009 decision ordered Telfer to pay $36,000 to a woman who had been her employee for six weeks. Lawyers wanted the sheriff to seize and sell Telfer?s home to collect the money.

Canada is overdue for a hardcore free speech movement.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 02, 2011 (boomark / email).