The applicant filed a human rights application alleging he was unable to access parts of a building housing a bookstore during an art auction and a book reading due to his disability.
Several respondents requested to be removed from the application, arguing they did not provide a service to the applicant.
The Tribunal removed the law firm sponsor, the book publisher, and the author as respondents, finding their connection to the accessibility issue too remote.
The Tribunal declined to remove the festival that hosted the auction.
The Tribunal also dismissed a request to dismiss the application under section 45.1 of the Code based on a decade-old complaint by a different complainant, finding it did not appropriately deal with the substance of the current application.
The Tribunal directed the Ontario Human Rights Commission to provide its position on releasing the file from the previous complaint.
