Yes because this SCC has been signalling to parliament for near 20 years that mandatory minimums need to allow for some discretion in unique circumstances.

Parliament consistently drafts and passes badly drafted laws.

There’s pretty recent case law explaining why the hypothetical is used in s.12 cases.

The fictional 18 year old might not have the resources to bring a charter challenge in their case. And it’s a better use of judicial resources to deal with it when the matter is before the court.

Completely immunizing yourself and your government from all causes of action, (including those based on bad faith), and from both s.52 remedies (which makes sense because NWC) but also Charter damages, really is a “mask off” moment.

They engaged the ATA in good faith at any point.

My worry is that unlike Ford (to a degree), Smith and the UCP seem to be more headstrong and willing to dig their heels in, consequences be damned (because it’s the marxists and leftist media that’s lying about everything).

Did Danielle Smith and the UCP just discover the Privy Council’s Labour Convention Reference (1937)?

Judicial activism is when judges make decisions I don’t personally agree with and the more I don’t agree with it the more judicial activism it is.

2022 before second wave of COVID hit, my friends and I were going to go see Simple Plan at Sandman, with the opener being The Offspring.

See as Exhibit A to my above post:

Part of the reason we’re in the situation we are now is that right wing commentators are exceptionally good at creating convincing strawman of the left and the base doesn’t look outside their chamber to see that the strawman is actually made of straw.

Isn’t this what upper year polisci interns were for?

I previously worked in commercial property management for a large shopping centre and a comment my wife and I have often made is how difficult of a time Aberdeen is going to have to fill the Bays space once it left.

A library would have been a really creative and effective use of that space.

I remember my retired neighbour growing up would pay me $20 (in the early/mid 2000s) to mow her lawn, which was about 30 min of work.

I only realized later once I got a min wage job how absolutely insane that was.

Why buy fentanyl when we can go all in on the gambit and just write “FENTANYL” in big letters on some bags of flour and have it seized by Carney on horseback?

A little known health fact is that you can’t be infected by polio or measles if you bench 315 and are 7% bf because the diseases are actually scared of you.

These survey questions and answers are not what you ask if you are serious about the future of Alberta.