It's official

"Calling Catholic groups ‘cult-like’ does not amount to discrimination: Ontario Human Rights Tribunal".

They determined the defendant's "anti-Catholic comments were offensive, but not akin to discrimination". Because . . . anti-Catholic comments offend everyone?

I don't know a thing about the student voluntourist program that was hit with the comments (their site is under construction, and seemingly has been for a couple of years) or the "Catholic groups connected to the program". For all I know, the "connected groups" may be cohorts of the Legion of Christ, which would make "cult-like" a very mild descriptor.

But look at this:

Although the complainant was treated differently due to his religious beliefs, the tribunal wrote: “I cannot see how the respondent’s comments about him were vexatious, or known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome, no matter how personally offensive and hurtful he found them to be. Accordingly, the respondent’s comments did not amount to substantive discrimination.”

No vexation here or discrimination here, no, just plain talk, friendly constructive criticism. The sort the defendant would just shrug off if someone made them about her favourite subjects, feminist thought and environmental justice.

Right?