13 CHRC bureaucrats investigating conservative website

Thirteen bureaucrats and lawyers at the Canadian Human Rights Commission have worked on the investigation of the conservative website, Free Dominion, for two and a half years. And that investigation continues to this day.

That’s about all the information that’s available from the access to information response provided by the CHRC to Free Dominion.

I’ve never seen such a laughable disregard for Canada’s freedom of information laws as this reply is. Seriously, click here (large file) to see 23 whited-out pages, yielding no information whatsoever.

(Actually it’s not true that this is the worst violation of privacy and access to information laws that I’ve ever seen. The CHRC is currently under investigation by the Privacy Commissioner for hacking into the Internet account of a private citizen to cover their tracks as they accessed their CHRC memberships in neo-Nazi organizations. That’s a worse violation of the law. And then there’s the Alberta HRC, which has stonewalled my own requests for access to information for nearly a year now, about their cartoon complaints against me. They didn't even provide me with the insult of 23 blank pages. What a bunch of petty tyrants. they all are How telling that they violate the law with impunity, and enforce their own laws with vicious zeal.)

There are four interesting things to note about their reply to Free Dominion.

First, the fact that the CHRC has refused to give any substantive information to Free Dominion, while clearly having a large file on them, shows how abusive the CHRC is. It’s a kangaroo court that treats the people it investigates not only with political contempt (the CHRC’s Dean Steacy compared Free Dominion, a legitimate conservative website, to the neo-Nazi website Stormfront, on page 5766 of this hearing) but without any regard for procedural fairness. They’re a bunch of bullies – not surprising, given that Jennifer Lynch is their chief.

The second thing is how wasteful the CHRC is, especially their section 13 censorship directorate. Thirteen bureaucrats have touched this file. Here are the ones I counted, listed alphabetically:

1.     John Chamberlin

2.     Natalie Dagenais

3.     Philippe Dufresne

4.     Kathleen Fawcett

5.     Harvey Goldberg

6.     Fiona Keith

7.     Sandy Kozak

8.     Catherine Labelle

9.     Vera Pantalone

10.  Marie-Anne St-Amour

11.  Dean Steacy

12.  Richard Tardif

13.  Marie Wankam

Those are thirteen bureaucrats that ought to be welcomed to the private sector, where they can find a real job, rather than sucking on the teat of a make-work project like persecuting Free Dominion for nearly three years. And counting! The investigation continues, but Free Dominion isn’t permitted any information about it!

The third thing is the cast of characters popping up. We see Dean Steacy, who famously declared, again under oath, that free speech is not a Canadian concept – it’s only American, the ignoramus says – so he gives it no value. He’s on the file. So is Sandy Kozak, the ex-cop who was thrown off an Ottawa-area police force for corruption. She’s on the file.

The most hilarious and pitiful part of the non-disclosure, though, is a deleted exchange on page 17 of the document. Kathleen Fawcett sent an e-mail to Harvey Goldberg, entitled “Thread from Free Dominion” – a thread meaning a conversational thread. The whole e-mail, except the words “Hello Harvey” are deleted.

Hilarious – it’s clear that the CHRC thinks they’re some sort of 007 super-stealthy operation, fighting against evil agents who will undo our entire civilization, so of course Fawcett gossipy note was deleted. This same delusion permeates the CHRC – just look at how they fortify their office, as if it’s a nuclear bunker. No wonder they think nothing of such trifles as hacking into an private citizen’s Internet account.

And Goldberg’s reply is pitiful: “Thanks. We were aware of this.”

Seriously, what kind of losers sit around their government offices all day, on the taxpayers dime, reading political chat sites, and sending urgent (and highly confidential!) e-mails to each other about them?

I have no idea what Free Dominion was talking about on October 17^th that caused Fawcett to send her e-mail. It was probably some election-oriented comment, about repealing section 13. Whatever it was, it was political – that’s what Free Dominion is about. For Goldberg, whose job title is “Team Leader, Strategic Initiatives”, to be following Free Dominion so closely that he’s already on top of whatever Fawcett sent him is just sad, really.

Can you really respect such a man? Or such an organization? They basically surf the Internet (they come to my site daily, according to my statistic program), looking for gossip about them. They’re inveterate self-Googlers. Like their boss, Jennifer Lynch, they’re extremely vain.

When they see someone talking about them, they send furious e-mails back and forth.

They’re like teenaged girls gossiping about some dreamy guy. Except that they’re paid six-figure salaries by taxpayers. And they have police powers behind them.

The arrogance of the CHRC to delete every substantive word in this memo is staggering – but what else could you expect from Lynch’s thugs?

The CHRC holds Canadian citizens in contempt. They hold the legal rights of the people they’re investigating in contempt. They hold our freedoms in contempt. And they even hold the access to information law in contempt. And therefore the CHRC itself is worthy of our contempt.

But underneath all of our contempt, we should laugh at them. They’re a bunch of thin-skinned nobodies, whiling away their days gossiping about what is said about them on the Internet.

It’s pitiful, really. I mean, who grows up thinking, “I want to be an Internet peeping tom when I grow up?” What a bunch of losers. They're one step up from sifting through peoples' garbage, trying to read their mail.

If they weren’t such bullies, I’d feel sorry for them and their lot in life.