Are governments in Canada subject to the laws they write?
If so, what are the consequences (if any) when the very bodies that write the statutes willfully ignore them?
Two court cases are proceeding right now. Both are against municipal governments who wrote and ignored laws so cavalierly that they put consumers at risk, and cost thousands of small business people virtually everything they owned.
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Ontario highway seem “safe” from the House of Commons, Trucker says Travis McDougall of Truckers for Safer Highways used his own experience to illustrate safety issues on Ontario’s northern highways at a November 23rd press conference. “We’ll use my last
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MTO’s promised six week response time drags past six months “This is a bit of a report card,” Lise Vaugeois, NDP MPP for Thunder Bay—Superior North noted in her opening statement to the November 23rd press conference on the safety
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“You as the consumer are paying it all” Truck driver Greg Ilgner has done Canadians a favour by using plain language and clear numbers to explain how the carbon tax is driving up the price of everything delivered by truck.
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NDP Bill ‘Chad’s Law’ to outlaw hazardous overtaking NDP MPP Guy Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk – James Bay) held a press conference on November 21st to introduce his private member’s bill, ‘Chad’s Law’ (Enforcing Highway Safety). The proposed legislation seeks to make
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Behrouz Khamseh of All Taxi Owners and Operators Limited (ATOOL) has launched a petition calling upon the City of Toronto to “level the playing field” concerning fare rates for different forms of ground transportation. Currently, Taxi rates are set by
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Commercial Truck drivers in Ontario can too often drive across the province without stopping at a single inspection station, New Democratic Party Lise Vaugeois (Thunder Bay-Superior North) said in Parliament on November 10th. “Our truck drivers can probably cross the entire
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“Why?” viewers ask A new 30-second Uber ad promoting the app for people taking trains has UK viewers scratching their heads in confusion this week. The spot features an enthusiastic young man approaching a train conductor to confirm that he
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Mayor Olivia Chow’s admirable attempt to cap the number of rideshare vehicles cruising city streets perversely resulted in a halt in the licensing of drivers for Accessible Taxis, perhaps the driver category needed most urgently in Toronto. The Law of
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