From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation website, a number of petitions to the Government of Ontario, in particular to Premier Dalton McGuinty. Premier McGuinty honour your pledge On the 11th of September 2003 you signed a pledge to uphold the Taxpayers’ Protection and Balanced Budget Act…
Category: Legislation
This is why we are where we are!
I received the following comment today regarding my “Ontario Bans Pit Bulls” article. This text is copied and pasted from the original comment, including all spelling and grammatical errors. “Guest what? I’m breeding pittbulls because i have a male and a female pitt bull and…
MPP’s "mad as hell" at Kormos
Over the past two years, I have truly come to appreciate Peter Kormos, Ontario MPP for Niagara Centre.As a senior member of the New Democratic Party of Ontario, Peter holds the posts of Justic Critic, Labour Critic, Consumer Protection Critic, and Community Safety Critic. During…
Dog Owners’ Liability Act of Ontario (2005) Information Sheet
Consolidated plain language interpretation of Ontario’s amended Dog Owners’ Liability Act (2005), courtesy of the Dog Legislation Council of Canada.Version for viewing (HTML) Version for printing (PDF) Information in these documents is intended to provide the reader with a summary of the key elements of…
Bryant is bankrupting Ontario’s Legal Aid system
According to Legal Aid Ontario, grandiose “mega-trials” designed by Ontario’s Attorney General, Michael Bryant, are bankrupting the Legal Aid system, which can now no longer afford to provide assistance to people who truly need it.Just like with his ill-conceived dog legislation, Bryant has dived headlong…
Conservatives throw their support behind inadequate animal protection bill
I had started to put this together back in September and then decided to re-read bill S-213 before posting here. Since that time, Mark Holland, a Liberal from Ajax-Pickering in Ontario, introduced private member’s bill C-373 which is identical to the former C-50. Without a…
Update on Yarmouth: Somebody’s listening
YARMOUTH (NS) — Downtown business owners have voted against a dog ban proposed by town council.Read the full story here. Although this is no guarantee that the politicians won’t still do something silly, at least the people voicing the original concerns have managed to look…
Bryant: Legislation is overbroad
In a recent National Post news report, Michael Bryant, the Attorney General of Ontario, was quoted as saying that the federal government’s new dangerous offender legislation is “too broad and will catch too many people in its net without zeroing in on the truly dangerous”….
Yarmouth, NS: Not anti-breed, just anti-dog!
Sigh! Another example of the movement by politicians towards completely isolating dog owners from the rest of society. Another town to add to my list of places in Canada I choose not to visit.Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is considering banning ALL dogs from the town’s Main…
Our minds are made up – don’t confuse us with the facts
After listing every vote on the amendments to Bill 132 by the members of the committee, I was thinking that readers might be interested to read the entire discussion that took place on February 10, 2005, as each of these amendments were considered.Four people presented…