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May 27, 2002


Mr. Clare Lewis, Q.C., Ombudsman
Ombudsman Ontario
125 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C7

Dear Mr. Lewis:

Re: File No. - private

Further to my letter dated May 12, 2002 and acknowledged by your office on May 21, 2002, I am respectfully asking again to investigate the Human Rights Commission's decision about my case of discrimination in employment on the grounds of ethnic origin, place of origin, citizenship, age, and receipt of public assistance.

If you would like to see additional information that could lead you to change your view with respect to my case, please find attached two copies of my "Canadian Experience under Harris Government" and "Human Rights Harassment and Discrimination in Employment" published on my personal Home Page on the Internet at: http://home.ica.net/~imoraru/.

As I mentioned many times so far, I did not see under my circumstances any "law or administrative practice" that appeared to be an adequate remedy for the complainant according to section 17.-(1)(a) of the Ombudsman Act used to close my file. Please be advised that:
  • With regard to the "administrative practice" implemented and used by Harris government, I would like to make reference to my attached copy of "Canadian Experience under Harris Government". But, as I have been informed, the Ombudsman cannot investigate political decisions, and of course it is not my intention to complain about it. I just added it to inform you about the manner in which people on welfare are treated like.

  • Regarding the "law", of course, Canada has some good laws and one of them is the Ontario Human Rights Code, but the main problem for me is that they are only on paper because Harris government has cut the Legal Aid for any case regarding employment, including human rights discrimination. I applied twice for legal aid on this matter, but my applications were not approved. So, haw could I have access to fair justice? Unfortunately, the only way to fair justice for me is to complain to the Ombudsman!

In the letter of December 4, 1997, the former Ombudsman has mentioned: "Please be advised that I do not agree that my investigation has obstructed your ability to proceed with your Human Rights Complaint". Also, she mentioned that "If you have another complaint about a provincial government organization my staff would be pleased to receive it". However, I do not understand why the Ombudsman staff is trying to obstruct now my possibility to have access to fair justice and is not pleased to receive my complaint about the decision of the Ontario Human Rights Commission?

As a final point of view, please be advised that I received intimidation messages by phone, and somebody hit very strongly our apartment door during night hours to threaten our family. In addition, as I already mentioned several times, our daughter is struggling with a strong depression and she did not go outside for more than three years. Consequently, I do not believe that the terms "appears to be an adequate remedy" from section 17.-(1)(a) of the Ombudsman Act are strong enough to justify the decision to close my file. Rather, we have a better chance to become homeless or to be killed and just disappear.

Therefore, I am complaining again about the Ontario Human Rights Commission's decision which has been contrary to the law, was unjust, oppressive and wrong.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely yours,

Ioan Moraru