Aiken v. Ottawa Police Services Board, 2015 ONSC 3793
DIVISIONAL COURT FILE NO.: DC-554/13
ONTARIO
SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE
DIVISIONAL COURT
LEDERMAN, MOLLOY, and D. L. CORBETT, JJ.
BETWEEN:
CHAD AIKEN
Applicant
– and –
OTTAWA POLICE SERVICES BOARD, OTTAWA POLICE ASSOCIATION, ONTARIO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, and HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO
Respondents
COUNSEL:
Roger Love and Anthony Morgan, for the Applicant
Charles Hofley and Leanne Fisher, for the Ottawa Police Services Board
Rana Arbabian and Insiya Essajee, for the Ontario Human Rights Commission
Margaret Leighton and Linda Chen, for the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
HEARD: April 13, 2015 in Toronto
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT
A. INTRODUCTION
1This is an application for judicial review of a decision dated May 24, 2013 of Leslie Reaume,1 sitting as an Adjudicator on the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, dismissing a complaint of discrimination under the Human Rights Code.
2The applicant, Chad Aiken, filed a human rights complaint on July 5, 2005, alleging that he had been discriminated against by the Ottawa Police Service. He is a young African Canadian male who was driving a Mercedes when he was stopped by police on May