HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO
B E T W E E N:
Dean de Lottinville
Applicants
-and-
Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Ontario as Represented by the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services (Ontario Provincial Police)
Respondent
INTERIM DECISION
Adjudicator: David A. Wright
Indexed as: de Lottinville v. Ontario (Community Safety and Correctional Services)
1The respondents submit that a complaint and investigation pursuant to the Police Services Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.15, appropriately dealt with the substance of this Application, and that the Application should be dismissed under s. 45.1 of the Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19.
2The issue of the application of s. 45.1 in the context of the Police Services Act is a significant one, and it arises in this case, in Claybourn v. Toronto Police Service, 2011 HRTO 1406, Shallow v. Toronto Police Services Board, 2011 HRTO 1407 and Leong v. Peel Regional Police Services Board, 2011 HRTO 1741. Therefore, in my view it would be helpful to have oral submissions from the parties and the Tribunal will schedule a half-day conference call for this purpose.
3A copy of this Interim Decision will be sent to the Chief of Police, Toronto Police Service, the Toronto Police Services Board, the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Office of the Independent Police Review Director. Should they, or any other organization, seek to intervene in this case, a Request to Intervene or Notice of Commission Intervention shall be filed no later than one month from the date of this Interim Decision.
4I am not seized.
Dated at Toronto, this 22^nd^ day of September, 2011.
”signed by”__________
David A. Wright
Associate Chair