scaramouche

...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

A "human right" to hardwood floors: If you ever want to have a laugh and a half, check out some of the decisions of the BC Human Rights Tribunal, the 'roos who even as we speak are weighing the evidence of the Buffy scholar and other experts on "Islamophobia" who gave testimony at the Steyn/Maclean's show trial. (Either that or they've gone fishing and hope to get back to their deliberations once the fish stop biting.) Here's an example of one of the many, many decisions you can find on the BCHRT site: a couple who complained that the wife's rights had been violated when her request to rip out the broadloom in their unit--she suffered from asthma and the carpeting supposedly made her wheeze--was turned town.

Now, I'm not saying that, if the carpeting did indeed exacerbate her condition, the condo owners weren't being unreasonable when they told her the floor covering had to stay (because it would have violated the condo's by-laws to remove it). But, really, hardwood as a "human right"? I don't think so.

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