Against the RCMP. What is this guy going to do if he does become a Mountie, sue criminals? Please HRC's, I was discriminated against because the criminal only shot at me, they should have shot at only the other officers. Please HRC's, I was discriminated against because the RCMP sent me to a cold northern post, not the post I wanted in Toronto.
Mounties ordered to re-admit cadet
A former RCMP cadet tossed out of the force’s training program after enduring weeks of racial discrimination won a hefty financial settlement and a second chance to fulfil his “lifelong dream” today after the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled in his favour.
Fine, he gets $500,000 for his pain and suffering, and gets to re-enroll in the RCMP program. Is he happy now????? It appears not.
The tribunal ordered the RCMP to pay for lost wages, suffering, and legal costs — a figure Tahmourpour’s lawyer Barry Weintraub pegged at about $500,000.
The order to give Tahmourpour a chance to re-enrol in the cadet program came despite his request that he be installed as an officer at a level commensurate with fellow cadets.
He wants to become an "instant" officer, by-pass the training required, get a raise, and if that isn't enough, he wants to help other visible minorities also learn how to sue and win $500,000 settlements.
Given his “unique insight” into race relations, the Iranian-Canadian said he hopes to one day be in a position within the RCMP in which he can help fellow officers who may be encountering similar experiences.
Was he tortured? What happened to this poor victim, that caused him to fight for 9 years to be allowed to re-enroll in the RCMP?
Tahmourpour first took his case to the Canadian Human Rights Commission in March 2001 where he cited incidents of verbal abuse and unfair performance evaluations. Among his chief grievances was that a superior officer made comments about a pendant he wore as a symbol of his faith and that his Arabic signature was mocked.
The commission, however, dismissed his complaint, saying his firing was the result of poor job performance.
The Federal Court agreed with that decision but on appeal, the court was found to have ignored “crucial evidence” — essentially the RCMP’s own statistics — which showed “systemic discrimination.”
Gosh darn, that is so cruel, my heart almost stopped just thinking about the pain he suffered. How did he survive? Poor performance evaluations, a pendant he wore gets mentioned, and the all encompassing, verbal abuse. It's a sad tale of pain, suffering, bad manners by RCMP officers, and well lack of the level of respect this cadet obviously deserved.
This is the new face of our RCMP officers, that should make us all proud of the work of this Human Rights Tribunal, we now get:
An “advisory committee” or “multiculturalism officer” should also be appointed to make recommendations to the training centre’s commanding officer in an effort to prevent discrimination, the decision stated.
So, a real Federal Court dismissed his case, but he continued to sue until he won with, you guessed it, a HR Tribunal, better known as Kangaroo Courts. Wonder what the Tribunal will do if the RCMP assign a tough, but disabled, female RCMP officer to help him though his new RCMP experience, and she claims discrimination because he won't respect her? What to do, what to do. Does a disabled female trump a visible minority male? Oh wait, a female is a visible minority, and she's disabled, so her rights should count for more than his rights, and well white male's rights....they have none.
Get a clue HRC's, you are already under the microscope for your decisions in other matters, and you go and do this? Because of statistics that supposedly show "systemic discrimination"? Do you have no idea how easy statistics are to manipulate? Here's an example.
Insurance companies use statistics to discriminate against young male drivers. Their statistics clearly show that male drivers under 25 get in more accidents, than say, granny, who only drives one block to Church every Sunday. That's the clue.
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Decisions like these do nothing but strengthen public opinion that the HRC is nothing more than a kangaroo court that panders to the usual special interest groups.
Several years ago, my brother attempted to apply to the Toronto Fire Dept. He was told point blank that as an able bodied white male with fire-fighting experience that he need not apply, because their mandate at the time was only to visible minorities and women.
Could you imagine the chaos if everyone who's been negatively impacted by these "affirmative action" programs decided to sue?
How binding are HRC rulings ? Can RCMP appeal to a real court ?
I'm so glad to see that someone else besides me was disgusted by this. If the RCMP tells you to take off any jewelry, you take it off! I can bet you anything if it was a man wearing a cross who took the same case to the HRC he would be laughed at and thrown out. How's that for systematic discrimination?
The question is how far is too far? How far do we carry this "affirmative action"? This is a perfect case of Human Rights being about pandering to one segment while denying the rights of another. So white males need not apply at fire departments, police stations, non-bilingual people need not apply for government jobs, people don't have to wash their hands when handling food, etc.
When do we say enough is enough. When do white males start standing up for their rights.
When does the Human Rights Tribunal get it's wings clipped. How can they order the RCMP to pay someone $500,000 of taxpayers money, for hurt feelings?
When do people stop playing the race card, and own up to their personal responsibilities?
I think when the HRC's are disbanded. It's obviously an experiment that has gone horribly wrong.
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