Nepean Redskins to Change Their Name After Rights Complaint Blackmail — Come On Hudak: Promise to Abolish the Ontario Human Rights Commission
Whatever use they might have served in the distant past — and I question that — human rights commissions have outlived their purpose. They provide privileged minorities a tool to harass and blackmail the majority. In a move that may well cost $100,000, the Nepean Redskins will change their name. One Ottawa Indian, musician Ian Campeau, found the name “offensive” and, when the team wouldn’t budge, filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
It cost him nothing but a letter. The Commission will do the legal work for him, If he loses, he pays no costs or penalty. From the get-go, all the costs are on the tream,. They must hire a lawyer, present a case, answer motions and correspondence and, eventually, appear before a tribunal. Even if they, win, they are out thousands, likely several tens of thousands of dollars. Human rights tribunal members are often highly biased in favour of minorities. They are part of the human rights industry. The odds are stacked against the victims.
The National Post (September 20, 2013) reports the latest victory for minority blackmail and bullying enabled by the skanky creature called the Ontario Human Rights Commission: ” An Ottawa amateur football club — the Nepean Redskins — is changing its name and logo under mounting pressure from critics who say it’s a racist reference to aboriginals. The team’s president Steve Dean said Thursday the change is voluntary and will be officially announced Friday.The team “understands that the current name is offensive to some, and thus divisive to our community,” he said in a statement. …

The decision comes weeks after an Ottawa musician, Ian Campeau of the band A Tribe Called Red, filed a human rights complaint alleging the name is racist. Campeau hailed the news Thursday, posting a triumphant “WE DID IT!!!” on Twitter.
Not all were on board with the switch, with a few on social media accusing the team of giving into political correctness. Dean said the club will choose a new name, logo and colours at the end of the football season in November. Parents, players and volunteers will be consulted, he said. The full transformation is expected to cost more than US$100,000 and ‘may take a number of years to complete,’ he said.”
An earlier National Post story (September 3, 2013) explained: “Arguing that the name of the Nepean Redskins, an Ontario amateur football club, is ‘offensive, non-inclusive and dehumanizing,’ an Ottawa man announced Tuesday he is approaching the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal to force a name change. … Ian Campeau, a member of the Nippissing First Nation and a DJ with the aboriginal electronic music group A Tribe Called Red.” He had led a two year campaign of e-mails and media agitation to try to force the name change.”
Incidentally, doesn’t Campeau’s group’s name “A Tribe Called Red” call attention to race and seem, well, uh, a little bit racist.?
The September 3 National Post story, but not the version still on-line, made extensive reference to local Ottawa Indian groups who had no problem with the name “Redskins” for the amateur football team, and saw no offence in in/ The Ottawa Citizen (September 3, 2013) report notes: “The National Capital Amateur Football Association has resisted the name change, claiming that it has consulted the native community and received support for continuing to use the name.
Association and Redskins president Steve Dean said: ‘This is a small not-for-profit entity doing work in the community with a name that has been around for 30 years. It was never our intention or objective to offend anyone.’ The football league has aboriginal players and coaches, added Dean.”
The threat of burying an amateur team for children with legal costs gives an unfair blackmail hammer to privileged minorities.
“About 550 kids and volunteers run the flag, tackle, touch and cheer programmes with the club. … It left the youth football club facing an expensive transition or a lengthy, high-profile legal battle.” (Globe and Mail, September 21, 2013)
The time has come to rid the province of this meddling and unfair institution. Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader Tim Hudak promised to do just that when he was running for his party’s leadership in 2009. So, too, did one of his rivals, and eventual ally in the final vote, MPP Randy Hillier.
The Toronto Star (September 21, 2009) reported: “Hudak, who has followed long-shot candidate Randy Hillier’s lead on calling for the rights body to be scrapped, … emphasized Tories are profoundly concerned about the rights body, which has become a bête noire in conservative circles where it is perceived as infringing on individual and press liberties.
‘Everywhere I go in this province, speaking to PC members, they want to see changes to the human rights commission, because it doesn’t serve victims well nor those who have been accused,’ said the Niagara West-Glanbrook MPP.’When (Tories) see somebody like (chief human rights commissioner) Barbara Hall out championing for the ability to censor the media while those that have real cases of discrimination languish on waiting lists, they want to see changes,’ he said.”
Regrettably, as soon as he’d clutched the leadership prize, Hudak, apparently, heard from the Big Boys and shelved his promise. It’s time, in light of this latest outrage, for him to pledge himself to purging this Province of the bullying institution.
Paul Fromm
Director
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![Photo: CAFE Accepted As Intervener in McCorkill Case
St. John, New Brunswick, September 3, 2013. The Canadian Association for Free Expression was granted intervener status by the New Brunswick Court of Queen's bench. CAFE will be supporting the Estate of the late Robert McCorkill who left a large legacy to the National Alliance. This legacy has been challenged by McCorkill's estranged sister Isabelle, who came forward nine years after his death after a U.S. anti-free speech group the Southern Poverty Law Centre of Montgomery, AL sought to prevent the NA from receiving the legacy.
"This is an incredibly crucial case," says CAFE Director Paul Fromm. "The enemies of free speech, with significant Establishment assistance, are seeking to reach the skeletal fingers of political correctness even into the disposition of a person's private property."
Supporting Isabelle McCorkell's [yes, there's a spelling difference] motion to negate the legacy are the Attorney General of New Brunswick, the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. All are arguing that the bequest is contrary to the public good.
Marc-Antoine Chiasson, Isabelle McCorkell's lawyer has said: “Hate speech in Canada is criminally prohibited. Secondly, Canada has signed on to numerous international conventions with the specific goal and aim to get rid of hate speech, hate groups and the financing of hate groups.” We signed on to some poxy agreement preventing donations to groups the biased SPLC says are “hate groups”?
" The National Alliance is a perfectly legal group in the U.S." Paul Fromm points out. "The New Brunswick Attorney General is arguing that the bequest is contrary to the public good or public policy. Abortion on demand is the laws of the land. Would a bequest to a pro-life group be ruled contrary to the public good? The implications of this case are frightening!"
Interestingly, neither of the parties, the petitioner Isabelle McCorkell or John Hughes lawyer for Fred Streed, executor of the estate, were in Court this morning, CAFE lawyer Andy Lodge reported. Mr. Hughes had written to the Court giving his consent to CAFE's intervention.
Lawyers for the other three interveners did attend Court. The New Brunswick Attorney General indicated that he neither consented nor opposed CAFE;s participation. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs indicated it did not oppose CAFE's intervention, but did "want to go on the record as opposing any substantive evidence CAFE might submit and CAFE's arguments." It might be noted that these arguments are still to be filed.
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