shockedcanadian
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This is Canada, especially in Ontario.
Here is the problem, a nation like Canada knows that is violates citizens rights so like China they are very sensitive to optics. Thus, like China, the only way this guys situation improves is if American or European agencies reached out to Canada to ask "what are you doing to this man"?
When Trump called Canada "nasty" he was surely referring to more than just the manner in which we operate in negotiations. We operate our police state like a nation in the Stone Age would, but we piggy back off of Americas reputation for civil liberties and due process.
Since this person is a black man I wonder if IM2 will take an interest in his story and stop pretending he understands Canada.
www.thestar.com
For the last 20 years — half of his life — Camelot Hamblett has lived in near-total isolation in a locked room in a psychiatric hospital.
Diagnosed with treatment-resistant schizophrenia and found not criminally responsible for a 2004 sexual assault, the 43-year-old Toronto man is never let out of his room at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care for more than two hours a day — some days much less, others not at all — and usually in restraints.
His case was met with alarm by a panel of judges at the Ontario Court of Appeal on Monday. Hamblett’s lawyer urged them to order an independent psychiatric assessment with the goal of finally getting Hamblett out of what is known in the medical world as “seclusion,” which the Canadian Psychiatric Association has said should only be used as an option of last resort in emergency situations to prevent immediate harm to the person or to others.
Hamblett has been detained at Waypoint, next to Georgian Bay in Penetanguishene, Ont., since 2005. He was arrested after chasing a stranger in the street, exposing himself to her and saying they were going to have sex, only to flee before doing so. He also punched two strangers in the face at a hospital. He was found not criminally responsible for those incidents.
“The situation is untenable and inhumane,” lawyer Anita Szigeti, an expert on mental health law, told the three-judge panel. She emphasized that her client is a Black man who has spent half of his life restrained and locked in isolation.
“Somebody has to care about what’s happening. He needs help.”
Justice Grant Huscroft said the court was “concerned about this situation,” and would deliver its decision shortly.
Szigeti was asking the court to overturn a decision made by the Ontario Review Board that found there was no treatment impasse in Hamblett’s case and therefore an independent assessment wasn’t required. The board, made up of doctors, lawyers, and laypersons, annually reviews the cases of people found not criminally responsible to determine, among other things, if they should be released from hospital and on what conditions.
Here is the problem, a nation like Canada knows that is violates citizens rights so like China they are very sensitive to optics. Thus, like China, the only way this guys situation improves is if American or European agencies reached out to Canada to ask "what are you doing to this man"?
When Trump called Canada "nasty" he was surely referring to more than just the manner in which we operate in negotiations. We operate our police state like a nation in the Stone Age would, but we piggy back off of Americas reputation for civil liberties and due process.
Since this person is a black man I wonder if IM2 will take an interest in his story and stop pretending he understands Canada.
For 20 years, this man has been locked in ‘seclusion’ at an Ontario psychiatric hospital. ‘Somebody has to care,’ his lawyer says
Found not criminally responsible for a 2004 sexual assault, Camelot Hamblett has lived in near-total isolation in a locked room in a psychiatric hospital for nearly half his life.
www.thestar.com
For the last 20 years — half of his life — Camelot Hamblett has lived in near-total isolation in a locked room in a psychiatric hospital.
Diagnosed with treatment-resistant schizophrenia and found not criminally responsible for a 2004 sexual assault, the 43-year-old Toronto man is never let out of his room at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care for more than two hours a day — some days much less, others not at all — and usually in restraints.
His case was met with alarm by a panel of judges at the Ontario Court of Appeal on Monday. Hamblett’s lawyer urged them to order an independent psychiatric assessment with the goal of finally getting Hamblett out of what is known in the medical world as “seclusion,” which the Canadian Psychiatric Association has said should only be used as an option of last resort in emergency situations to prevent immediate harm to the person or to others.
Hamblett has been detained at Waypoint, next to Georgian Bay in Penetanguishene, Ont., since 2005. He was arrested after chasing a stranger in the street, exposing himself to her and saying they were going to have sex, only to flee before doing so. He also punched two strangers in the face at a hospital. He was found not criminally responsible for those incidents.
“The situation is untenable and inhumane,” lawyer Anita Szigeti, an expert on mental health law, told the three-judge panel. She emphasized that her client is a Black man who has spent half of his life restrained and locked in isolation.
“Somebody has to care about what’s happening. He needs help.”
Justice Grant Huscroft said the court was “concerned about this situation,” and would deliver its decision shortly.
Szigeti was asking the court to overturn a decision made by the Ontario Review Board that found there was no treatment impasse in Hamblett’s case and therefore an independent assessment wasn’t required. The board, made up of doctors, lawyers, and laypersons, annually reviews the cases of people found not criminally responsible to determine, among other things, if they should be released from hospital and on what conditions.
