text: Yes, I focused on the difference between the Commission and the Tribunal - a difference you clearly didn't understand when you wrote your comment.  I'm happy if you now do.  Perhaps it has woken a desire to find out more true facts about how Human Rights adjudication operates in Ontario.
  
  The Commission may blow its own horn about its "unique legal powers", but they no longer include any powers to adjudicate, quasi-judicially or otherwise.  It doesn't conduct hearings.  Period.
  
  The concept of bias is entirely different when talking about prosecution instead of adjudication.  And by the way, when was the last time the OHRC "launched a prosecution before Courts and Tribunals"? I'm aware of none since the 2008 major revision of the Code.
  
  Proceedings at the Tribunal are civil disputes between two parties, not prosecutions by the state.  Losing parties are not 'convicted' they simply lose. They are not fined, they have damages ordered against them.