Haskins v. Religious Hospitaliers of Hotel Dieu of St. Joseph, 2009 HRTO 1434

Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario

B E T W E E N:

Angela Haskins

Applicant

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The Religious Hospitaliers of Hotel Dieu of St. Joseph of the Diocese of London operating as Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital and EMS-Essex Windsor

Respondents

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Windsor Police Services

Intervenor

INTERIM DECISION

Adjudicator: Eric Whist

Date: September 9, 2009

Citation: 2009 HRTO 1434

Indexed as: Haskins v. Religious Hospitaliers of Hotel Dieu of St. Joseph

1The Application, filed under s. 34 of the Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended (the “Code”), alleges discrimination with respect to goods, services and facilities on the basis of race, place of origin, citizenship, ethnic origin, disability and association with a person identified by a ground under the Code.

2In an Interim Decision, 2009 HRTO 1223 the Tribunal granted a request from the Windsor Police Services to intervene. The applicant has now asked that the Tribunal reconsider this Interim Decision.

3The applicant appears to be objecting to the Tribunal granting intervenor status to the Windsor Police Services on the grounds that she believes the Windsor Police Services and its counsel have contravened certain statutes (e.g. the Police Act and Ontario Human Rights Code) and that they may not have filed and served their request to intervene in the appropriate manner. The applicant did not raise these concerns at the time the Windsor Police Services made its request to intervene. The applicant further states that she wishes the Application to be deferred as she may be filing an Application against the Windsor Police Services, the City of Windsor and others and that this potential Application should be considered in conjunction with this Application.

4Section 45.7 (1) of the Code states that any party to a proceeding before the Tribunal may request that the Tribunal reconsider its decision in accordance with the Tribunal Rules. Rule 26 of the Tribunal’s Rules of Procedure states that any party may request reconsideration of a final decision of the Tribunal. The decision to grant intervenor status to the Windsor Police Services is not a final decision and as such is not subject to reconsideration. Consequently the applicant’s request is denied.

5The Tribunal will not defer the present Application on the basis that a further Application might be filed. It is open to the applicant to file such a request when her further Application is filed.

6I am not seized of this matter.