Comments on: Ontario Clothesline Bans Banned http://www.slaw.ca/2008/04/18/ontario-clothesline-bans-banned/ Canada's online legal magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:35:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John G http://www.slaw.ca/2008/04/18/ontario-clothesline-bans-banned/comment-page-1/#comment-393678 John G Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:09:58 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/2008/04/18/ontario-clothesline-bans-banned/#comment-393678 Orwellian statute titles, or at least politicized ones, date back to the Peterson govt, e.g. the no-fault auto statute was called the Motorist Protection Plan Act. But Harris went at it with a vengeance - the Fewer Politicians Act, the Employment Standards Improvement Act (try criticizing that one). One of my favourite long titles was An Act to repond to the decision of the Supreme court o Canada in M v H (I think it was) - which they mercifully did not give the short title "The Supreme Court Made Us Do It Act" - to extend same-sex benefits in a number of provincial statutes. The McGuinty govt is just as aggressive as Harris was - whether the content is as offensive is a matter of point of view, but the titles are often absurd and offensive, and totally obscure about what is actually happening. Remind me to submit my quiz about statutes named after dead kids... it's a real trend in Ontario legislation (and elsewhere, I fear.) Orwellian statute titles, or at least politicized ones, date back to the Peterson govt, e.g. the no-fault auto statute was called the Motorist Protection Plan Act. But Harris went at it with a vengeance – the Fewer Politicians Act, the Employment Standards Improvement Act (try criticizing that one). One of my favourite long titles was An Act to repond to the decision of the Supreme court o Canada in M v H (I think it was) – which they mercifully did not give the short title "The Supreme Court Made Us Do It Act" – to extend same-sex benefits in a number of provincial statutes.

The McGuinty govt is just as aggressive as Harris was – whether the content is as offensive is a matter of point of view, but the titles are often absurd and offensive, and totally obscure about what is actually happening.

Remind me to submit my quiz about statutes named after dead kids… it's a real trend in Ontario legislation (and elsewhere, I fear.)

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