Hadjis

With Privileged ranks such as Hadjis you speak only when spoken to, and then you stand with eyes downcast and hands clasped in front of you.

The Status Civilization Robert Sheckley 1966

There were eighty or a hundred men, no women, and five or six 'Hadjis', draped in beautiful Eastern dresses, and looking very supercilious.

Letters from the Cape Lucie Duff Gordon 1845

In any case, the Hadjis decision on Warman v. Lemire is about to get the thorough airing it deserves.

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It was a precisely-argued ruling, and I found myself agreeing with a good deal of the reasoning that Hadjis put forward to dismiss various parts of the complaint.

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If only for legal clarification by what the Speech Warriors ™ are pleased to call the "real courts," Hadjis 'ruling must be appealed. posted by Dr. Dawg at 3: 16 AM

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It does not further the Charter vision of a democratic and pluralistic society to gut the provisions of Section 13 (1) as Hadjis has attempted to do.

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But it was surprising that Hadjis did not feel that an inflammatory news release put out by the neo-Nazi Heritage Front (which Lemire headed up at the time), and which was reproduced at Lemire's website, could expose new immigrants to "hatred and contempt."

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And it is appalling that Holocaust denial, a consciously false set of claims deliberately constructed and deployed to express hatred for Jews, to wound them, and to present them to the wider public as liars and enemies of freedom, has been found by Hadjis not to exceed the bar set by Section 13 (1).

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Hadjis has, in fact -- setting aside the constitutional question -- now raised that bar so high that it is no longer visible to the naked eye.

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With respect to this conclusion, I am in agreement with Bernie Farber and the Canadian Jewish Congress: Hadjis could have "read out" Section 54 (1) as unconstitutional, which it almost certainly is (the CHRC itself has recommended removing that section from the CHRA).

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