Complaints and Levant

: Reached in Copenhagen by email, Levant said he had submitted his application to resign a long time ago, "but only on the condition that it not be under a cloud — that is, all complaints against me must be disposed of first, according to CBC. I stand by that condition." Levant said he has had 26 law-society complaints against him but none have been successful. "In the past eight years there has never been a moment when I was free to resign — each new complaint overlapped the previous one," he said, adding that "if all of the complaints against me are disposed of, I would resign simply because I haven't worked as a lawyer in well over a decade, and I haven't lived in Alberta in years." Next week at a hearing in Calgary, a three-member, law-society committee is to decide whether to accept Levant resignation. Edmonton lawyer and former Alberta Human Rights Commission hearing officer Moosa Jiwaji, who filed a complaint against Levant in September 2014, confirmed Tuesday to CBC News he received a letter from the law society informing him that Levant had applied to resign from the legal profession. Jiwaji filed his complaint following a series of columns and broadcasts by Levant in which he excoriated the adjudicator for his rulings related to alleged discrimination against a foreign trained engineer, and an electrician. The complaint stemmed from a Sun News column entitled "Next stop, crazy town" in which Levant criticized the Alberta Human Rights Commission, and Chak personally, over a previous commission ruling. In his complaint against Levant, Jiwaji cited statements Levant made during broadcasts about him and the commission. "In all the broadcasts Levant used profane, defamatory and derogatory language," the complaint states, "and called Jiwaji, among other things, a 'bigot,' an 'anti-immigrant racist,' a "Kangaroo court judge,' 'someone who loves racial revenge movies,' 'anti-African,' a 'buffoon,' 'a fan of racist revenge porn,' and 'someone who had a slave mentality.'" In March 2014, Edmonton lawyer Arman Chak, a former commission employee, filed a complaint with the Law Society of Alberta against Levant. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.