There is a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, a British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, and there might very well be tribunals in every other province. They are a third level of the court process, an ugly and inferior triplet to civil and criminal courts. In this third court those who have had their human dignity or self respect or personal freedom injured may air their grief. Why, if any serious charge existed, the civil or criminal court does not suffice is a question long forgotten, perhaps never asked. In substantiating the charge the tribunal does not recognize reasonable time limits, often allowing hearings to drag on much longer than would be permitted in either of the other two courts.
Compensation is awarded accordingly.
Stealing Free Speech Obviously the structure and mandate of this independent, government-funded mechanism for protecting human rights makes it the perfect tool for anyone with an agenda. All swindlers knows a good thing when they see it, and laying eyes on the human rights tribunal has brought them out of the woodwork to swindle, in this case, people out of their freedom. They've gotten away with it easy enough because like all government agencies that are asked to render a service, the human rights tribunal takes more than it gives. Specifically the human rights tribunal takes freedom in the name of human dignity. Consider the clients.