Richard Warman's crusades now appear to be less profitable than they have in the past:

OTTAWA - The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has upheld complaints about online hatred filed by anti-racist crusader Richard Warman in 2004.

But in a break with past practice, the tribunal declined to impose a penalty on Melissa Guille, webmaster of the Canadian Heritage Alliance, despite concluding that both she and the alliance had contravened Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
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In nine previous successful complaints brought by Warman, an Ottawa lawyer, the tribunal had imposed fines ranging from $1,000 to $7,500 on the guilty parties.

But it declined to do the same in Guille's case because only a few of Guille's postings violated Section 13 and she removed material from the website as soon as she was informed it could be problematic.

As well, imposing a fine could impose "undue hardship" on her, the tribunal added.

A single mother, Guille testified she earned $560 a week as an administrative secretary.

The tribunal noted, though, that the decision not to impose a penalty should not in any way be seen as condoning Guille's conduct.

It may not seem like much of a victory for us freespeecher types but there is a silver lining.  If Warman isn't going to be compensated for his little crusades, that whiney, pathetic sack of shit will be less inclined to initiate them to begin with.  It's the liberal way.

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written by WL Mackenzie Redux, October 01, 2008

I'll predict that the Lemire case yields no fiscal award to the plaintive either.

It was telegraphed loud and clear to the tribunal at the Lemire constitutional challenge in his hearings that the statute purpose of the tribunal is to render remedial processes and award money only where personal losses due to discrimination (i.e. job/promotion loss, housing rental loss etc) and not to fatten 3rd party litigious CHR lawyers at the expense of respondents who would be crippled or ruined by these fines (awards)...that is a punitive process and out of tribunal legislated function.

They have been punitive with these awards in the bulk of section 13 cases and they are now reining back in to avoid political liabilities...at least while the media is still watching closely.

Lemire has been "punished" enough with the lawyer's fees, the "remedy" is done (he shut the site down) so I suspect with all the fuss and a media spot light on the CHRT, it will forgo a punitive award to the plaintive and let Lemire walk with a scolding.

Then I hope he gets litigious with those who groundlessly trashed him as a "nazi".

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written by Blazingcatfur, October 01, 2008

We can only hope

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