shockedcanadian
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These are traditional police state tactics inherited by the Gestapo, Stasi and British policing "methods" that have traditionally enforced an artificial caste system.
Imagine, not being allowed to know why the Creepy Ones have spread information about you. So no due process, they will refer to "community policing" as basically "we tell corporations and HR who a bad guy is even if he doesn't have a record and the Canadian agencies who have tampered with HR departments agree and deny employment or constructively dismiss workers.
THIS is what your police are supporting. The fact that the courts refuse to even listen to this confirms that Canada is no different than the Soviet Unions of the 1980s.
Would America have embraced The Soviets in 1984? How about the MSS in 2025? Do you passively and/or tacitly support a social credit score conducted in secrecy and allowing creeps, diddlers and abusers of power to maintain their careers?
www.thestar.com
When a B.C. physician was vying for a diplomatic posting abroad but failed a required background check, he was provided with reasons and an opportunity to respond.
Similarly, if a federal aviation worker fails a background check, they can get transparency around why and a chance to challenge the result.
But, apply to be a Toronto cop or Metrolinx security officer and fail, and you may never be told why, and you’ll never be given a chance to dispute or challenge a decision that effectively derails your career in law enforcement.
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Canada denied leave to appeal an Ontario Court of Appeal decision that quashed a lower-court ruling that applicants for municipal law-enforcement positions had a right to know why they failed a police background check.
The Supreme Court’s decision not to take on the case means the matter is settled for now: In Canada, if you apply for a federal position that requires a background check and fail, there exists “procedural fairness,” and you get to know the reason or reasons. Not if you want to be a police officer.
The case goes back to Yazdan Khorsand, an Iranian-born man with no criminal record. After several years of training and education, he cleared a Toronto police background check in 2018 to let him work as a special constable with the Toronto Community Housing Corporation. He later left that job for a better-paying role with Metrolinx, but his career came crashing down when he failed another background check, this one conducted by the OPP, in 2019.
Metrolinx fired him. Toronto police next turned him down over yet another background check. And the TCHC wouldn’t take him back.
All the while, he was never told why he was now failing the checks.
Khorsand decided to press for answers through the courts — and via freedom-of-information requests — but now, with the Supreme Court’s decision, his case is over.
Imagine, not being allowed to know why the Creepy Ones have spread information about you. So no due process, they will refer to "community policing" as basically "we tell corporations and HR who a bad guy is even if he doesn't have a record and the Canadian agencies who have tampered with HR departments agree and deny employment or constructively dismiss workers.
THIS is what your police are supporting. The fact that the courts refuse to even listen to this confirms that Canada is no different than the Soviet Unions of the 1980s.
Would America have embraced The Soviets in 1984? How about the MSS in 2025? Do you passively and/or tacitly support a social credit score conducted in secrecy and allowing creeps, diddlers and abusers of power to maintain their careers?
The Supreme Court declined to take on this Toronto man’s legal battle. Why the result is ‘profound unfairness’ on criminal background checks
“There’s a profound unfairness in this idea that there’s some information that is being used against you, and you don’t know what (it) is.”
www.thestar.com
When a B.C. physician was vying for a diplomatic posting abroad but failed a required background check, he was provided with reasons and an opportunity to respond.
Similarly, if a federal aviation worker fails a background check, they can get transparency around why and a chance to challenge the result.
But, apply to be a Toronto cop or Metrolinx security officer and fail, and you may never be told why, and you’ll never be given a chance to dispute or challenge a decision that effectively derails your career in law enforcement.
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Canada denied leave to appeal an Ontario Court of Appeal decision that quashed a lower-court ruling that applicants for municipal law-enforcement positions had a right to know why they failed a police background check.
The Supreme Court’s decision not to take on the case means the matter is settled for now: In Canada, if you apply for a federal position that requires a background check and fail, there exists “procedural fairness,” and you get to know the reason or reasons. Not if you want to be a police officer.
The case goes back to Yazdan Khorsand, an Iranian-born man with no criminal record. After several years of training and education, he cleared a Toronto police background check in 2018 to let him work as a special constable with the Toronto Community Housing Corporation. He later left that job for a better-paying role with Metrolinx, but his career came crashing down when he failed another background check, this one conducted by the OPP, in 2019.
Metrolinx fired him. Toronto police next turned him down over yet another background check. And the TCHC wouldn’t take him back.
All the while, he was never told why he was now failing the checks.
Khorsand decided to press for answers through the courts — and via freedom-of-information requests — but now, with the Supreme Court’s decision, his case is over.
