Criticism
Two complaints were made to the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) concerning, www.recomnetwork.org, a CAERS' run website, providing information on racism and hate groups. The complainants, Alexan Kulbashian and Andrew Guille, claimed that: 1) posting complaints made by Richard Warman to the CHRC against several hate groups and hate group members, 2) allowing live links to websites that were named in Warman’s complaints, and 3) the presence of several racist statements made by a reader as a comment on news stories was discriminatory contrary to Section 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Rush, Crane and Guenther successfully argued on behalf of CAERS that both complaints were made in bad faith since Kulbashian had earlier been found to have contravened the CHR Act for his website, Canadian Ethnic Cleansing Team, as had Guille's sister, Melissa Guille for the Canadian Heritage Alliance, that Warman’s complaints were public knowledge, that the active links complained about were inadvertent and had been de-activated, that the racist postings were not condoned and that filters had been implemented to prevent racist postings as comments on news stories. Racist groups continue to argue that CAERS received preferential treatment from the CHRC.
CAERS, Alan Dutton and the Jewish Western Bulletin were sued for libel when Dutton was quoted as saying that radio station AM 1040 was broadcasting interviews with racists. AM 1040 had broadcast extensive interviews with Paul Fromm, David Irving, Doug Collins of the North Shore News, Charles Scott of the Church of Jesus Christ in Israel, and Tony McAleer of the White Aryan Resistance Movement. The White Aryan Resistance Movement was a racist California based group. The leader was Tom Metzger who was found to have encouraged the murder of an African immigrant in Portland, Oregon. The Georgia Straight carried the same allegations as the Jewish Western Bulletin but was not sued. The case went to discovery but was dropped. AM 1040 paid legal costs.
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