CAFE’S SUCCESSFUL PROTEST AGAINST $750,000 PENALTY FOR TRUSTEE BARRY NEUFELD CRITICIZING SOGI & THE LGBTQ/TRANS AGENDA
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Abolish Sec. 7 of the BC Human Rights Act
Human Rights legislation originally sought to outlaw discrimination in employment and housing. In the intervening decades, human rights commissions have become more and more sinister, seeking to control speech. Sec. 7 of the B.C. Human Rights Act reads:
7. (1) A person must not publish, issue or display, or cause to be published, issued or displayed, any statement, publication, notice, sign, symbol, emblem or other representation that
(a) indicates discrimination or an intention to discriminate against a person or a group or class of persons, or
(b) is likely to expose a person or a group or class of persons to hatred or contempt because of the Indigenous identity, race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or age of that person or that group or class of persons.
The bland sounding words “is likely to expose [a privileged group] to hatred or contempt” is so loosey goosey that a defence is almost impossible. Any comment critical of a privileged group, in the case below the LGBTQ crowd, is likely to expose them to “contempt.” Contempt is a negative feeling. Thus, if the critical comments are believed, any criticism possibly might expose the group to contempt. And no actual harm has to be proved. Incidentally, truth is no defence. This has been CAFÉ’s experience in over a dozen “human rights” cases.
Consider the case of Barry Neufeld:
Committed Traditional Christian & Former School Trustee Barry Neufeld Fined A Crushing $750,000 By BC Human Rights Tribunal For Criticizing the LGBTQ Agenda
[Since our beginning in 1983, CAFE has warned that one of the most sinister enemies of free speech and opinion are human rights commissions. The Charter’s weak guarantees of freedom of expression, belief and religion mean nothing to them. Infected with hatred for traditional Christians and obsessed with gender bending LGBTQ ideology, they tolerate no dissent from the LGBTQ agenda and punish dissenters with fines more in keeping with a shipping company guilty of an environment wrecking oil spill. The complaint against Mr. Neufeld was made by the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. There was a time when the teaching profession stood for free speech and inquiry. In B.C., the BCTF is committed to leftist indoctrination of their young charges and pushing the radical, anti-Christian LGBTQ agenda. BCTF president Carole Gordon gloated at the victory and crowed: ” The BCTF will always stand firmly in support of 2SLGBTQIA+ students, families, and teachers. Today’s outcome sends a clear message: inclusion and respect are not optional in British Columbia’s schools.” Don’t let the touchy feely words “respect and inclusion” fool you. There’s no respect for traditional Christians in the BCTF’s opinion and, if you dissent from the LGBTQ agenda and the glorification of transgenderism, you will not be included. It’s our sincere hope that this totalitarian and vengeful decision will be the subject of a judicial review (appeal).]
“A B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has released its decision against former trustee Barry Neufeld on Feb. 17, 2026. (Progress file) A B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has released its decision against former trustee Barry Neufeld on Feb. 17, 2026. (Progress file) Former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld has been ordered to pay $750,000 by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal for violating the Human Rights Code with “heated public speech” exposing LGBTQ people to hatred or contempt. The tribunal issued its final decision this week, issuing two sets of costs orders in the matter of the BCTF (on behalf of) the Chilliwack Teachers’ Association v. Neufeld, one ordering the payment of $750,000 in costs to the CTA, and a concurrent order of $10,000 for improper conduct during the lengthy process. The decision finally rendered after years of deliberations determined that Neufeld violated sections 7(1)(a), (b), and 13 of the Human Rights Code and the orders constitute the remedies against him.
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal is seriously biased against Christians and heterosexuals, in particular member Devyn Cousineau who wrote this decision. Back in 2018 in the Whatcott case she was challenged for bias but refused to recuse herself. Bill Whatcott is a committed evangelical Christian who circulated a leaflet criticizing NDP candidate Ronan (“Morgane”) Oger who was a transgendered activist. Whatcott argued that if the candidate couldn’t get his sexuality right, he should not be entrusted with political or financial decisions. Oger was an NDP provincial vice-president, Cousineau had supported the NDP and many LGBTQ causes. Oger was a well known volunteer at Qmunity, an LGBTQ Vancouver group. In the Qmunity 2016 annual report Devyn Cousineau (the woman tasked with impartially adjudicating Oger vs Whatcott) was recognized for financially donating to the homosexual activist organization.
Devyn Cousineau delivered the brutal judgment in Barry Neufeld’s case. In her decision on costs in this case, she wrote: “I have noted above that the primary purpose of an award of costs under s. 37(4) is punitive. Punishment of a wrongdoer, however, is not an end in itself. It also, of course, serves as a deterrent to discourage and prevent others from committing the same or similar wrongful acts.”
Mr. Neufeld had every right as a concerned citizen to speak out against SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) sex ed programme. As an elected trustee, he had an even great right to make known his views. The B.C.Human Rights Tribunal has again tried to beggar and silence a man with traditional Christian views sexuality. The Neufeld decision is an outrage.
It’s time to send the censors packing.
“ I am Canadian, a free Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, free to choose those who govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.” These inspiring words of former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker form the opening of the Canadian Bill of Rights (1960). What an inspiring vision of a free and constructive society!
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION (CAFÉ), P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3. (416)-428-5308. http://cafe.nfsthost.com