Scrapping "Human Rights" Tribunal, Restoring Our Right To Fair Trial

Could this be happening? Saskatchewan is considering to scrap the "human rights" tribunal, transferring the case load to the court of law.

This is the best idea we’ve heard all week: Saskatchewan’s Justice Minister says his province could soon dissolve its Human Rights Tribunal and move its caseload over to the Court of Queen’s Bench. There, defendants would enjoy something that human rights Star Chambers have long denied the accused: due process, including a proper hearing in front of a judge fully trained in Canada’s constitutional traditions.

Human rights, of course, has long been the mother’s milk of Canadian political life. But in recent years, it has become clear that the provincial and federal tribunals that operate under the human rights banner are even more problematic than the waning social ills — racism, sexism, homophobia — they are meant to address. Unlike in a proper civil trial, the accuser in a human rights tribunal proceeding gets his prosecution paid for by the government: He merely has to scrawl out a complaint to get the process going, and then watch his prey squirm under years of costly, often Kafkaesque, prosecution. In censorship cases — involving, most famously, Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn — human rights mandarins have made it clear that they have scant regard for free speech.

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H/t The Politics of the Cross Resurrected

I only hope they don't backtrack on this. If we can't prevent those freedom-snatching committees from persecuting people for merely expressing their views, the very least we can do is to give the accused back his right to a fair trial - in the court of law, where the rules of evidence do apply, where truth is a defense, where the presumption is innocent until proven guilty and not vice-versa...