Courteously And With Compassion
To paraphrase the title film of an amusing and entertaining film...Canada's human rights tribunals must be crazy. In their efforts to be entirely just to all and sundry, abdicating the responsibility to carefully consider the source and reasonableness, the country's human rights tribunals exact their inane and somewhat insane interpretation of deserved justness on any occasions where their sense of social order has been offended.
Under pretense of serving the public weal they do us all a great disservice.
In the latest instance, where the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the Correctional Service of Canada to pay $9,500 to a remorseless, entitlements-consumed murderer serving a life sentence for killing an Ottawa police officer. This is hardly the first time nor will it be the last that serious criminals have been well served by human rights tribunals.
Peter Michael Collins who took the life of David Utman in 1983 laid claim to $20,000 in his human rights complaint.
One might assess that the $9,500 fine levied against the Correction Service represents a slap on the wrist, putting them on notice that the rights of the incarcerated are of concern in a humane society. Because of previous incidents where roll calls included prisoners who were not in a position to respond, a new rule was instituted that at daily roll calls, each prisoner was to stand, to assure they were present and in good health.
It was Mr. Collins' health in fact, his long-standing back problems due to a series of vehicle collisions, that he claimed was being deleteriously impacted by the need to stand at roll call, as he claimed the very act of preparing to stand caused him intolerable pain. An exception should be made, ruled the Tribunal, on this man's behalf.
And to make sure that lesson was heeded, along with his medical exemption, compensation was due the prisoner for pain and suffering.
It is well worth noting that back in 1983, when police constable David Utman sat for a brief relaxation from duties having a coffee at the Gourmet Fair restaurant at Bayshore Shopping Centre, he might have been thinking about his two children and his wife. His murderer, illegally at loose after his escape from the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, confronted the policeman.
What Collins did was to order the policeman to stand, stating that it was his intention to shoot him. He ordered David Utman to stand once again, having missed him the first time around. Const.Utman rose and began to slowly approach the escaped convict, with his nightstick in his hand, speaking all the while to him to convince him to hand his gun over.
In response, Collins mockingly invited the policeman to draw his own firearm, whereupon he fired a second time, hitting his prey in the chest. Collins was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Skilled at playing the system and withdrawing from it whatever he demanded, this murderer has been busy teaching the Corrections Systems the manner in which it must exhibit society's conscience on his behalf.
His standing as a member of society is that of a murderer of a man tasked with protecting society. A man he ordered to stand so he could be killed by him, as an afterthought. Claiming now on his own behalf that standing represents a painful activity, and society must acknowledge his rights in a humane manner, treating him courteously and with compassion.
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal obediently agreed.
Under pretense of serving the public weal they do us all a great disservice.
In the latest instance, where the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the Correctional Service of Canada to pay $9,500 to a remorseless, entitlements-consumed murderer serving a life sentence for killing an Ottawa police officer. This is hardly the first time nor will it be the last that serious criminals have been well served by human rights tribunals.
Peter Michael Collins who took the life of David Utman in 1983 laid claim to $20,000 in his human rights complaint.
One might assess that the $9,500 fine levied against the Correction Service represents a slap on the wrist, putting them on notice that the rights of the incarcerated are of concern in a humane society. Because of previous incidents where roll calls included prisoners who were not in a position to respond, a new rule was instituted that at daily roll calls, each prisoner was to stand, to assure they were present and in good health.
It was Mr. Collins' health in fact, his long-standing back problems due to a series of vehicle collisions, that he claimed was being deleteriously impacted by the need to stand at roll call, as he claimed the very act of preparing to stand caused him intolerable pain. An exception should be made, ruled the Tribunal, on this man's behalf.
And to make sure that lesson was heeded, along with his medical exemption, compensation was due the prisoner for pain and suffering.
It is well worth noting that back in 1983, when police constable David Utman sat for a brief relaxation from duties having a coffee at the Gourmet Fair restaurant at Bayshore Shopping Centre, he might have been thinking about his two children and his wife. His murderer, illegally at loose after his escape from the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, confronted the policeman.
What Collins did was to order the policeman to stand, stating that it was his intention to shoot him. He ordered David Utman to stand once again, having missed him the first time around. Const.Utman rose and began to slowly approach the escaped convict, with his nightstick in his hand, speaking all the while to him to convince him to hand his gun over.
In response, Collins mockingly invited the policeman to draw his own firearm, whereupon he fired a second time, hitting his prey in the chest. Collins was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Skilled at playing the system and withdrawing from it whatever he demanded, this murderer has been busy teaching the Corrections Systems the manner in which it must exhibit society's conscience on his behalf.
His standing as a member of society is that of a murderer of a man tasked with protecting society. A man he ordered to stand so he could be killed by him, as an afterthought. Claiming now on his own behalf that standing represents a painful activity, and society must acknowledge his rights in a humane manner, treating him courteously and with compassion.
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal obediently agreed.
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