OHRC Tribunal and Involuntary Psychiatric Patients
Posted by mop Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:53:00 GMT
The Ontario Human Rights Commission may be addressing an inconsistency in the the way it deals with the deaths of involuntary mental patients. It was front page news here in Toronto this week when the OHRC announced a tribunal to examine complaints by the families of two patients who died while involuntarily patients at Ontario mental facilities.
The head scratcher is thus: a public inquiry is required when a prisoner dies in custody, but not when an involuntary mental patient dies. Hmm.
Someday I’ll be able to recommend Suzan Fraser’s blog, or at least a web site, for follow-up.
