Simons: Human rights commission must treat complaints of Morinville parents seriously

Hoist on its own petard. That’s where the Alberta government now finds itself, dangling, as it faces a sudden flurry of human rights complaints from angry parents. The Alberta government in 2009 passed a controversial piece of legislation, known as Bill 44, which amended Alberta’s Human Rights Act. The amendment finally, belatedly, recognized the Albertans had a right to be protected from …