Inside the Belly of the Beast: The Fourniers Visit the CHRC
Dear Free Speech Supporter:
Mark and Connie Fournier, the moving forces behind the
website freedominion.ca,
we now know were spied on by CHRC's blind investigator -- don't ask us how he
can do his job -- Dean Steacy before any formal complaint had been made
against them. This was just part of ongoing CHRC spying on Canadian dissidents.
A complaint was filed against them in the spring of
2007 and then withdrawn when they raised a considerable storm in the media. The
complaint involved postings critical of homosexuals, one of politically correct
When the Fourniers published criticism of former CHRC
investigator and Sec. 13 complaint filing champion Richard Warman, they found
themselves the victims of no fewer than three defamation suits by the thin
skinned "anti-racist" now ensconced in the bowels of the Department
of Natiolnal Defence.
The Fourniers have been pursuing a frustrating access to
information request with the CHRC. They drove recently to
The CHRC is a hotbed of self-glorifying paranoia. In Warman's
defamation suit against me, he testified that, when CAFE and about 30 free
speech supporters picketed the offices of the CHRC one rainy late October
afternoon in 2003, the CHRC was subject to "a full security lockdown."
To protect them from 30 peaceful protesters!
Since the Warman v.
Terry Tremaine tribunal in August, 2006, Warman, when he makes his
brief appearance to testify, and the Commission lawyers all through the
hearings, are accompanied by anywhere from 2 to 5 (in the Melissa Guille case)
government-paid bodyguards. Yes, they even accompany Warman and the
Commission lawyers to the washroom. No, I won't offer any humorous speculation
on that topic.
Here is the Fourniers' account of their visit to human
rights central, which seems more like what it is, the sordid heart of darkness
of
Not just Sec. 13, but the entire CHRC must go!
Paul Fromm
Director
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by Connie Fournier
http://www.freedominion.com
Yesterday Mark and I drove all the way to
We got to the building on
When we walked in, we did not encounter a receptionist like we expected. There
was a security guard behind glass, instead. When I wanted to hand him the
letter with my case number on it, I had to slip it through a little slot in the
glass.
He directed us to sit in two chairs across from his station and he disappeared
into the back. He came back out in a couple of minutes and told us that he had
given the letter to someone who would pass it along until they found someone
who could "give us an answer". I thought that was rather strange
since I had already said that I just wanted to talk to Heather Throop and give
her a document.
As we were waiting, we heard a huge commotion in the outside hall, which had
been utterly deserted. A guy came barrelling down the hall with a cart loaded
with files, grabbed an elevator, and disappeared. I turned to Mark and
whispered, "There go our files".
A few moments later, a young, timid-looking girl came out and handed something
to the security guard, whispered something to him, and then retreated quickly
from our sight. I honestly thought the poor girl suspected we were wired with
bombs!
The security guard then told us that Heather Throop wasn't in, but asked if we
would like to talk to Deborah Cansick. I said that that would be fine because I
have talked to her by email several times.
Mark and I stood waiting as the security guard walked out the back door of his
booth and we prepared to go in to see Deborah Cansick.
To my utter astonishment, he, instead, picked up a phone in the waiting room,
dialed a number, and handed it to me. I wasn't even allowed to see Deborah
Cansick...I had to speak to her on a phone while she hid in another room!!
Well, to make a long story short, Cansick told me there was no point in giving
her the paperwork I brought because they weren't planning on fulfilling my
request.
I hung up the phone, took my letter back through the little hole in the window,
and Mark and I left the office for the elevator. As we were waiting, an older
woman and a guy with a bunch of earphones attached to him came and waited with
us and got on the elevator as we rode down. I said to Mark later that it seemed
like they appeared out of nowhere to make sure we actually left the building!
Both Mark and I were spooked by our experience at the CHRC. It was unlike any
other government office we have ever seen. Talk about "faceless
bureaucracy"! It is absolutely frightening that these people, who spend
their days hidden behind a security guard and bulletproof glass, have the power
to utterly destroy the lives of Canadians, and they don't even have to look
their victims in the eyes.
George Orwell must be spinning in his grave.