Freedom Flyer June 1994 Cover

Freedom Flyer 25

the official newsletter of the
Freedom Party of Ontario

June 1994



STILL NO DECISION!

TORONTO (June, 1994) - As of this writing, there has still been no ruling rendered on the Ontario Human Rights Commission's Board of Inquiry hearing regarding a complaint of racism against London landlord Elijah Elieff. The ruling, which was due October 31, 1993, must address both of the final arguments made by Commission counsel Geraldine Sanson and by Elieff's counsel, Fp president Robert Metz

Of the last two issues of Freedom Flyer, we devoted 16 of our 24 total pages to this case alone. For complete background information on this hearing, we refer you to our June '93 and December '93 issues of Freedom Flyer. As regular readers will recall, during the course of the hearings our June '93 issue had a publication ban placed against it because it contained information about a "deal" the HRC tried to cut with Elieff in exchange for dropping the complaint against him.

JUSTICE DELAYED - JUSTICE DENIED

The ultimate irony, of course, is that while Elieff is waiting for the board's ruling, the notoriety of his plight (engineered by the London Free Press and United Church minister Susan Eagle) has already cost him the two Cheyenne Ave. apartment buildings he was trying to protect. In fact, the whole affair has been so embarrassing to the municipality that "Cheyenne Ave" no longer exists; the street name was changed to "Oakville Ave" to bury any memory of the issue.

Worse, the new owners of his buildings are now facing the same harassment by Eagle that was endured by Elieff, even though they have spent well over $300,000 renovating the buildings and now have all but two of their 80 units occupied.

STILL WAITING

Despite repeated calls to the Human Rights Commission for a report on the current status of the ruling, no response has yet been received. The delay in the ruling is particularly ironic, given the haste with which the Board of Inquiry wanted to wrap the case up while it was in process.

We're still waiting.




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