Posted on 11/28/2019 3:36:53 PM PST by rickmichaels
A Bell Canada customer has been ordered to pay $4,000 by the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal for “discriminatory language” he used in a 2016 phone call with a customer service agent, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
The customer called to cancel his Bell service. The customer service representative, Mohamed Jied, told the customer his first name, causing the conversation to “degenerate significantly,” according to a Tribunal account of the recording.
“Take your bags, take your turban and get out of Quebec,” the caller says in one part of the recorded conversation, to which Jied replies: “I am Canadian.”
The two individuals started hurling insults at one another.
“Get f—ed, okay? Young man, f— you …,” Jied is heard saying. The caller replies: “You are all terrorists. That is guaranteed.”
Jied was fired six days after the conversation but successfully appealed the decision at a Feb 5. labour board hearing and the case went before the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal.
“Discriminatory language, because of its hostility and intensity, constitutes intolerable racist conduct in a free and democratic society with such fundamental values as those underlying the Charter Of Rights,” wrote judge Mario Gervais.
“The words spoken cross the high threshold required in case law to constitute a discriminatory infringement of Mr. Jied’s right to dignity,” the Tribunal continued.
The judge also wrote the caller’s words sought to deliberately “denigrate and humiliate” Jied by “attacking his personal characteristics.”
Despite the ruling, Gervais did place some accountability on Jied’s shoulders. At one point in the conversation, Jied is heard saying: “Suck my d—.”
“Anger does not constitute a valid defence,” wrote Gervais, adding, “Provocation by the victim is not a defence.”
However, Jied’s “shock, feelings of humiliation, anxiety and self-deprecation,” affected his state of mind at the time, Gervais wrote.
Jied, originally from Tunisia, immigrated to Quebec in 2006 with his wife and children.
Mohammed
The caller spoke english in Quebec?
That’s pretty much a Capital Offense in Quebec.
At one point in the conversation, Jied is heard saying: “Suck my d—.”
“Anger does not constitute a valid defence,” wrote Gervais, adding, “Provocation by the victim is not a defence.”
WOW.
Hurt someone’s feewlings...pay $4,000
Canada is NOT a free country.
I guess that causing hurt feelings is an A felony there.
“Right to dignity”... hmmmm.
I guess the customer isn’t always right in Quebec.
This article exemplifies why liberals hate the 1st Amendment.
“Can you hear me now?”
Same in the UK and other EU countries.
Gee.. I was head of a PC help desk and the worse call I ever had was a Canadian women screaming at me calling me and every American ever dirty name in the book.. not only did I not get any money.. my Chinese boss made me call her back for hanging up on her abuse
So basically what the caller said was spot on:
“You are all terrorists. That is guaranteed.”
The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal and those of all other Provinces should be disbanded and these matters handled in the various courts of Canada. There is no actual need of a club in the hands of grievance pimps and their assorted fellow travellers.
...one of which apparently is NOT freedom of speech. That's un-Canadian.
There are your real criminals right there.
The customer service representative, Mohamed Jied,
to which Jied replies: “I am Canadian.
Mo would have a better chance of claiming to be a millionaire Nigerian Prince than a Canadian.
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WOW.
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Yep.
Muzz is automatic not guilty victim-hood in utopian democracies.
The progs in the U.S. drool over the thought of having that here.
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I doubt this “judge” realizes the inherent hypocrisy in the statement ““Discriminatory language, because of its hostility and intensity, constitutes intolerable racist conduct in a free and democratic society with such fundamental values as those underlying the Charter Of Rights,” wrote judge Mario Gervais.”
Short version: a free society does not punish speech.
That's on its face self contradictory.
At least have the honesty to call yourself an un-free society or leave the whole dang word 'free' out of it without degrading the word. But frankly then even the word 'democratic' is non sequitur as it has no bearing on racist conduct unless a majority of a popular vote has deemed the conduct intolerable as in against the law, and while we're at thank God the US is not a democracy.
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