No wonder Kant wants to be an American. Canada has turned into a liberal tyranny:
CHRC employee sends private investigator to harass my parents at their home
By Ezra Levant on June 11, 2008 5:24 AM
I've had a lot of fun with the Canadian Human Rights Commission lawyer Giacomo "Serenity Now" Vigna. He's the buffoon who, in the middle the Warman v. Lemire hearing, suddenly declared that he was not "mentally able to proceed" because he was "not in a serene state of mind." If you want a good laugh, read the transcript, starting at page 4867 here. Let me quote just a few lines from it, and the hilarious response by opposing counsel:
MR. VIGNA: Sorry. Mr. Chair, I don't have the flu but I don't feel in a serene state of mind to proceed with the file today. I don't feel very well. I feel dizzy, I feel anxiety, and I am not in a serene state of mind to proceed with this file today.
I have a lot of things worrying me right now and I don't want to elaborate, but my colleague said, Mr. Fine, there are some certain incidents that have occurred which I don't feel at liberty to elaborate right now, which have had an impact on my ability to proceed in a professional way on this file, at least for today, because I wouldn't be rendering the Commission a just service by proceeding in this condition.
I am not dying, Mr. Chair, I don't have the flu, but I am not mentally capable of proceeding under these circumstances.
THE CHAIRPERSON: But the witness is here?
MR. VIGNA: The witness is here. It's not the question of the witness. The witness is here. I thought until this morning that I would proceed, but I really don't feel primarily mentally able to proceed, and physically too.
...MR. CHRISTIE: I have heard two explanations which are as frivolous as any I have ever heard in justifying an adjournment of a whole proceeding… To say I am not feeling well, but sit here and talk about it, is inconsistent. There is no medical certificate, and I heard very faintly Mr. Vigna say I'm not physically sick, I don't have a serene state of mind. Very few of us in the difficulties we face always have a serene state of mind. I don't know what that means.
This is not a case of a nervous breakdown or a mental state justifying a psychiatric examination. I am certain of that. To say I don't feel like doing it today is insulting...
MR. VIGNA: Mr. Chair, I will provide a medical certificate.
THE CHAIRPERSON: Please sit down, Mr. Vigna.
MR. VIGNA: I feel insulted by that comment.
THE CHAIRPERSON: Please sit down.
God that's good. Well, good if you're looking for entertainment. The proceedings were cancelled, and the CHRC -- that is, you and I as Canadian taxpayers -- were ordered to pay for flight and hotel costs of everyone who had flown in for the hearing when Vigna had his breakdown. The Law Society of Ontario Upper Canada is still investigating his conduct, and so they should.
Oh, where was I? Right. As regular readers will recall, Vigna has threatened to sue me for, well, writing exactly what I've just written above. You can see his rambling, home-made libel notice here. As I remarked at the time, I'm not sure why Vigna wants to sue me, when he's the one who made a fool of himself. We all make fools of ourselves from time to time. But only Vigna has the masochistic tendency to want to relive that embarrassing moment again in open court.
Well, maybe Vigna has calmed down. His threat to sue me was in April, and it's June now. Maybe he has finally found that serenity he sought.
Nope.
Now my parents tell me that Vigna has been harassing them at their home.
Vigna has been sending a private investigator to my parents' house again and again, demanding to see me. My parents, who are far more polite than I am, keep telling Vigna's hired tough guy that I don't live there anymore. I did when I was a teenager. But that was in 1990.
The last time Vigna's hired muscle came to my parents' house, he refused to leave. My parents said he had a Bluetooth phone device in his ear, and seemed to be taking instructions from someone -- Vigna himself? -- who told him not to go until he had found me. In the end, Vigna's enforcer must have lost his serenity, too, because he threw some papers down at my parents feet, and stormed off.
Classy.
My parents are much better behaved than I am. Had some neckless bouncer come on my property and refused to leave, I would have called the police. Not my sweet parents -- they're old fashioned, and believe in being courteous, even to bullies.
But Vigna the brave harasser of senior citizens should be careful. For while my parents are sweet on the outside, they are just as stubborn as I am, in their own way.
Alberta's human rights commission tried to shake down my father, Vigna-style, 25 years ago. Here's how my dad put it in a recent letter to the Calgary Herald:
Almost three decades ago, the AHRC came down heavily on my group radiology practice, demanding that we place a male X-ray technician at female fertility tests, as we had exercised "gender discrimination" by hiring a female technician.
Thousands of dollars in legal fees, seven months of letters of explanation of medical procedure, of female patient sensitivity, and AHRC visits, were of no avail in convincing the arbiters of hurt. Not only were they ignorant of medical procedures, patient vulnerability and sensitivity, as well as physician liability, they were intruding on physician-patient relationships.
It was only when confronted by the radiologist stating that he was prepared to go to prison to uphold his patients' rights, rather than give in to the kangaroo court, did these commissioners back down.
My dad fought his fight against the thugs of the human rights commissions. Now it's my turn.
And I'm happy to fight them -- in their kangaroo courts, in the court of law, and in the court of public opinion. By the way, we're creaming them.
I just wouldn't have thought that they'd stoop so low as sending a private investigator to harass my parents.
But, really, why should I be surprised? The Canadian Human Rights Commission has no problem with tampering with evidence, tampering with court transcripts, lying under oath, hacking into a private citizen's Internet account and publishing vicious hate messages themselves. They deliberately recruit corrupt employees.
So why should it be surprising that they're picking on my parents?
Giacomo "Serenity Now" Vigna isn't just a clown. He's a bully who sends private investigators to harass his opponents' families. But in his defence, Vigna works for Ian Fine. He's just living down to the CHRC's corrupt corporate culture.
Fire. Them. All.
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