Have mentioned before that the former Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal/ORHT used to sell official, cassette recordings of all their hearings...and I purchased the tapes for my hearing. Then I typed up some transcripts for the section that was our discussion on sexual harassment.... After reviewing these transcripts, I can recognize more fully that I said something wrong about my landlady's sexual orientation and about my case, at the beginning. Also, it seems the adjudicator wasn't given any training in sexual harassment or human rights when he started his job. The Ontario Human Rights Code used to be handled by the former Ontario Human Rights Commission but the laws were expanded to allow the ORHT to prosecute the Human Rights Code in housing cases.
Even though the adjudicator was partly offended and/or frightened by me because of his lack of training for my case, I believe I had a responsibility to state my case accurately.... And I shouldn't have allowed it to sound as if I was against my landlady just because of her sexual orientation. It certainly wasn't what I meant but it kind of sounded that way.
Earlier in this blog, I've said my landlady was "gaslighting" me. That's a type of abuse that happens. And sometimes I said she set me up to say the wrong things.... It's possible she WAS gaslighting me...? I can't remember all the details of our conversations but I remember a little....
Continued below.
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