Omaro Rankine v. 1191 Birchmount Road Inc., 2016 HRTO 782

HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO

B E T W E E N:

Omaro Rankine

Applicant

-and-

1191 Birchmount Road Inc.

Respondent

DECISION

Adjudicator: David Muir

Date: June 8, 2016

Citation: 2016 HRTO 782

Indexed as: Rankine v. 1191 Birchmount Road Inc.

1The applicant filed an Application under s. 34 of the Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended (the “Code”), on March 16, 2016.

2On April 5, 2016 the Tribunal issued a Notice of Intent to Dismiss the Application (“NOID”) because it appeared that the application may be outside of the Tribunal’s jurisdiction to decide. The applicant was directed to provide his written submissions in response to the NOID before May 5, 2016. The applicant was further advised that if he did not provide written submissions by the required time the Tribunal may make its decision based only on the information in the Application or may consider the failure to respond as an abandonment of the Application and dismiss it for that reason.

3The NOID was sent to the applicant by email and regular mail. There is no indication that the NOID was not received by the applicant.

4The applicant did not respond to the NOID and the time for doing so has passed.

5In the circumstances, the applicant is deemed to have abandoned the Application.

6The Application is dismissed.