HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO
B E T W E E N:
Carol Gibson
Applicant
-and-
YWCA and Sheridan College
Respondents
INTERIM DECISION
Adjudicator: Brian Cook
Indexed as: Gibson v. YWCA and Sheridan College
1This Application alleges that the applicant has experienced discrimination by a large number of respondents. The Tribunal has made a number of requests for clarification about the applicant’s allegations. She has provided clarification about some of the allegations, but not about all of them.
2In a Case Assessment Direction dated April 28, 2014, the Tribunal determined that the Application could be processed and delivered to the YWCA and Sheridan College.
3The Case Assessment Direction stated as follows:
The Application mentions a large number of health care professionals, along with the Colleges governing those professionals, the Ministry of Health, and the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, the Ministry of Community and Social Services, the Financial Services Commission of Ontario, lawyers, an insurance company, and various courts and court officials.
The documents the applicant has sent to the Tribunal include no information about what it is she alleges happened involving any of these potential respondents. She indicates in her letters that she has attached documents that do explain what happened, but the documents were not included with the information she sent to the Tribunal. The Tribunal can only process an Application if the applicant identifies what is she alleges that occurred that involved a violation of her Code-protected rights.
If the applicant wishes to pursue the Application against any of these potential respondents, she must provide detailed information about the following for each potential respondent:
What happened;
When did it happen;
Where did it happen;
Who was involved; and,
Why the applicant believes that her Code-protected rights were affected.
If the applicant does not provide this information by May 23, 2014, the Application against any or some of these other potential respondents may be dismissed.
4In response to this, the applicant sent a letter on May 20, 2014. This letter is essentially the same as a letter the applicant sent earlier, dated January 22, 2014. The applicant has added some handwritten comments. This letter refers to attachments and suggests that the attachments might better explain the allegations. However, as with the earlier version of this letter, there are no attachments.
5On the basis of the information provided by the applicant, it is not possible to understand what her allegations are against the various respondents she has mentioned. The respondents cannot be asked to respond to allegations that are not specified. It is therefore not possible for the Tribunal to process the Application against these respondents.
6The Application will be sent to the YWCA and Sheridan College and they will be asked to provide a Response.
Dated at Toronto, this 18^th^ day of June, 2014.
“Signed By”
Brian Cook
Vice-chair