Ontario’s Human Rights Commission: A terrible bureaucracy



The Ontario Human Rights commission is a hugely underfunded and largely insensitive bureaucracy. CanadianLawServices.com provides an alternative to immediately filing a complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

Ontario's newly streamlined human rights watchdog is swamped with allegations of sex, race and disability discrimination, the Star has found.

"We are really overwhelmed by our volume of cases now," said Katherine Laird, the senior official whose job it is to support people who say they are victims. "Our phones are ringing off the hook."

The Ontario Attorney General created a new human rights system about three years ago, making it easier for people with claims to get a hearing before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.

Laird's office, the Human Rights Legal Support Centre, helps claimants going before the tribunal, but its telephones are so jammed that staff answered just 57 per cent of the 38,579 calls it received in the year ending 2010 March 31.

Ontario Human Rights Commission chair Barbara Hall believes only a small number of cases are ever reported. "This is the tip of the iceberg," she says.

CanadianLawServices.com offers a human rights consulting service to assist complainants of human rights abuses. CanadaLawServices.com is coordinated by a legal experienced facilitator, who can suggest lawyers or paralegals to their clients.

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http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/796931--complaints-overwhelm-human-rights-watchdog?bn=1


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