Mr. Wright

In three consolidated applications before the Ontario Labour Relations Board, the applicants sought orders for the production of documents and the addition of responding parties shortly before a scheduled hearing.

The Board noted the lack of progress in document exchange since its previous order.

The Board ordered the responding parties and intervenor to provide specific particulars regarding electricians at the Kidd Creek Mine, but deferred rulings on broader production orders and the addition of parties to the peremptory hearing dates of November 5 and 6, 2001.

The respondent company, Domglas Inc., brought a preliminary motion to adjourn the hearing of a human rights complaint against it pending the outcome of an application to the Divisional Court to quash the appointment of the Board of Inquiry.

The respondent argued that a six-year delay by the Ontario Human Rights Commission in processing the complaint violated its rights under sections 7 and 11(b) of the Charter and the rules of natural justice.

The Board of Inquiry dismissed the motion, finding that the Charter provisions did not apply to the corporate respondent or to the nature of the complaint (discrimination based on handicap), and that the balance of convenience favoured proceeding with the hearing in the public interest.