Haytham El Zayat v. Alamo Rent A Car, 2017 HRTO 1552

HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO

B E T W E E N:

Haytham El Zayat

Applicant

-and-

Alamo Rent A Car (Mississauga Airport Retail)

Respondent

DECISION

Adjudicator: Douglas Sanderson

Date: November 23, 2017

Citation: 2017 HRTO 1552

Indexed as: El Zayat v. Alamo Rent A Car

1This is an Application filed under s. 34 of the Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended (the “Code”), alleging discrimination with respect to goods, services and facilities.

2On October 11, 2017, the Tribunal sent the applicant a Notice of Intent to Dismiss (“NOID”) that advised him that the Application appears to be outside the Tribunal’s jurisdiction because:

• A review of the Application and the narrative setting out the incidents of alleged discrimination fails to identify any specific acts of discrimination within the meaning of the Code allegedly committed by the respondent(s). The Tribunal does not have jurisdiction over general allegations of unfairness unless the unfairness is connected, in whole or in part, to one of the grounds specifically set out in Part I of the Code.

3The Tribunal directed the applicant to file written submissions in response to the NOID by November 10, 2017.

4The NOID warned the applicant that if he did not file written submissions by the specified date, then the Tribunal would 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. As of the date of this Decision, the applicant has not filed any submissions in response to the NOID. In the circumstances it appears the applicant has abandoned the Application.

5The Application is dismissed as abandoned.