{"id":9734,"date":"2014-01-02T20:23:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T04:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=9734"},"modified":"2014-01-02T20:27:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T04:27:41","slug":"bc-hrt-dismisses-chan-v-ubc-racial-discrimination-case-ubc-bced-bcpoli-yteubc-idlenomore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2014\/01\/bc-hrt-dismisses-chan-v-ubc-racial-discrimination-case-ubc-bced-bcpoli-yteubc-idlenomore\/","title":{"rendered":"BC HRT dismisses Chan v UBC racial discrimination case #ubc # bced #bcpoli #yteubc #idlenomore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/files\/2014\/01\/BCHRTdecision20131219.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">19 December 2013, the BC Human Right Tribunal dismissed<\/a> UBC Professor Jennifer Chan&#8217;s complaint of racial discrimination in her application to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multicultural.educ.ubc.ca\" target=\"_blank\">David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education<\/a>\u00a0in December 2009. In\u00a0The\u00a0BCHRT\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bchrt.gov.bc.ca\/decisions\/2012\/pdf\/jan\/12_corrected_chan_v_ubc_and_others_no_2_2012_bchrt_12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">decision on 24 January 2012<\/a> to hear the\u00a0Chan v UBC and others [Beth Haverkamp, David Farrar, Jon Shapiro, Rob Tierney] case\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bchrt.gov.bc.ca\/decisions\/2010\/pdf\/dec\/350_chan_v_ubc_and_others_2010_bchrt_350.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">21 December 2010 HRT decision<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bchrt.gov.bc.ca\/decisions\/2012\/pdf\/jan\/12_corrected_chan_v_ubc_and_others_no_2_2012_bchrt_12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">24 January 2012 HRT decision<\/a>) was moved to the Supreme Court for a judicial review (see the\u00a0<em>Ubyssey\u2019s <\/em>[UBC student newspaper]\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ubyssey.ca\/features\/does-ubc-have-an-equity-gap692\/\" target=\"_blank\">feature article<\/a>\u00a0for the backstory to the case).\u00a0The Supreme Court then ordered the HRT to review its initial decision (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.gov.bc.ca\/jdb-txt\/SC\/13\/09\/2013BCSC0942.htm\" target=\"_blank\">29 May 2013\u00a0BC Supreme Court judgment<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In this 1<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/files\/2014\/01\/BCHRTdecision20131219.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">9 December 2013 decision<\/a> to dismiss, the HRT concluded that &#8220;There is insufficient material put forward by Dr. Chan respecting the\u00a0circumstances of these various allegations of discrimination against her in other\u00a0instances. The Tribunal does not investigate and relies upon parties to put forward all of\u00a0the information that they need to support their positions in a s. 27 application.&#8221; Tribunal Judge Norman Trerise continued:\u00a0even in a context of &#8220;deficiencies alleged by Dr. Chan, that the selection was contaminated by discrimination\u00a0on the basis of race, colour, ancestry or place of origin contrary to s. 13 of the <em>Code<\/em>. I\u00a0find that there is no reasonable prospect that the Complaint will succeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 December 2013, the BC Human Right Tribunal dismissed UBC Professor Jennifer Chan&#8217;s complaint of racial discrimination in her application to the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education\u00a0in December 2009. In\u00a0The\u00a0BCHRT\u2019s decision on 24 January 2012 to hear the\u00a0Chan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2014\/01\/bc-hrt-dismisses-chan-v-ubc-racial-discrimination-case-ubc-bced-bcpoli-yteubc-idlenomore\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,2250,406501,406504,125,2257,2258,2259,406503,2264,107,2276],"tags":[1288923,1288948,1288949,1288964],"class_list":["post-9734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","category-advocacy","category-bc-education","category-chan-case","category-diversity","category-employment-rights","category-equity","category-ethics","category-human-rights-2","category-legal-issues","category-race","category-working-conditions","tag-administration","tag-equity","tag-ethics","tag-working-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9738,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9734\/revisions\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}