Human Rights

What with the changing climate, our air quality got worse in Coquitlam right after our 4-day human rights hearing ended on September 7, 2022. Closing arguments end tomorrow on October 3, 2022. 

Our complaint arises out of our strata's discriminatory history of oppression on prohibited grounds exacerbating my PTSD and COPD and endangering the lives of my husband and myself on an ongoing basis.

This includes, but is not limited to, being denied HVAC that we requested timely permission to install in 2019, to accommodate "possibly fatal" lung disease that made my husband immune compromised and killed his father 3 years after onset.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2022 - SMOKE VIEWED FROM MY BEDROOM WINDOW

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2022 - WORST AIR QUALITY IN THE WORLD

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2022

Minnekhada High Knoll Wildfire

PM2.5 concentration in Coquitlam is currently 3.8 times the WHO annual air quality guideline value

HEAT AND HUMIDITY IN MY BEDROOM ON AUGUST 16, 17, 18, 2022

We are seeking whatever relief is deemed just in accordance with the stated purpose of BC's Human Rights Code for years of suffering, stress, and endangerment. All of which record-breaking killer heat in 2 of the last 3 summers and sharing space with substandard ventilation while vulnerable to respiratory infection during a deadly airborne Covid-19 pandemic made worse. 

The discrimatory history of oppression we complained is a continuous litany of contraventions exacerbating my PTSD and includes, but is not limited to,retaliatory chemical assaults within our own home in direct proximity to my 2005 request for a fresh air vent to accommodate my COPD.

The photos are of Tremco 830, which is not allowed in the USA, but was applied in copious amounts around the windows throughout the interior of our home despite my complaints. The formula in 2005 was stated to be intended for exterior application and warned of a risk of lung damage. Now it is suspected of causing cancer, which Dianne has had 2 forms of in the last 5 years. The WHMISS material safety data sheet on today's formula still say:

"Most important symptoms/effects, acute and delayed Symptoms: Respiratory tract irritation… Good general ventilation (typically 10 air changes per hour) should be used. Ventilation rates should be matched to conditions. If applicable, use process enclosures, local exhaust ventilation, or other engineering controls to maintain airborne levels below recommended exposure limits… In the event of a spill or accidental release, notify relevant authorities in accordance with all applicable regulations."

Coughing on exposure to smoke, sharing space with substandard ventilation in an air borne pandemic, with lung disease and compromised immunity, hot flashes in a post-menopausal asthmatic woman, panting and sweating in heat, getting old and sick and tired, needing safe air quality to accommodate disabilities is not difficult to understand.

The strata insults our doctors when it says that medical evidence relies on the patients' reports and then contradicts itself by claiming that expert opinion is required on injuries that we experience privately. It may be convenient for the legal profession to mix up the tribunal’s role to test credibility with the doctor’s role to treat medical conditions, but most doctors hate being involved in litigation where they risk leaving patients without care to respond to a subpoena to testify on matters that are common sense. NW2671 has very little common sense, but a whole lot of retaliatory practices in response to complaints.

THE STRATA REMOVED THE SURROUNDING SHADE TREES FROM OUR WINDOWS 
MAKING OUR HOME HOTTER AND DIRTIER AND NOISIER

SELLING PANORAMIC VIEWS TO THOSE ABOVE US AT OUR EXPENSE

Contrary to its stated concern about pentration of the builing envelope, the strata continually allows alterations of common property integrated into strata lots for extra skylights in the roofs for the exclusive use and enjoyment of individual owners without disabilities, and it maintains those skylights as a common expense without AOLs.    

Persistently and nefariously conflating matters is becoming standard practice throughout BC's strata agency industry.

Contrary to the strata's stated concern about aesthetics

or unreasonable interference with the peaceful enjoyment of others,
pictures are worth a thousand words...

The strata's stated concerns about common property and common expenses being shared is contradicted by its actions. In 2007 the strata ignored signed AOLs to re-build all of this unlawfully added extra decking as a common expense contrary to the best interests of the strata and my motion carried at the AGM. It did so for the exclusive use and enjoyment of a privileged minority without disabilities, including the majority of council members acting in conflict, to prevent the city from requiring imminent removal of the unlawfully added extra decks. 

THE START OF HARASSMENT EXPLOITING PTSD AS A CONDITION OF STAYING IN OUR HOME