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    This whole discussion is getting way into the weeds.<br>
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    The point I was originally trying to make was about the crappy job
    the corporations we need to depend on are doing in keeping our
    information secure.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/18/19 9:24 PM, Russell Reiter via
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          <div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 4:51 PM D. Hugh
            Redelmeier via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org"
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              via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org"
                target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">talk@gtalug.org</a>><br>
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              | I agree that many newcomers face significant barriers
              through a lack of<br>
              | understanding of Canada's system of administrative law
              and the policies<br>
              | which underpin it. However, as much we would like to
              believe law concerns<br>
              | itself with vulnerable folks, that is not quite correct<br>
              <br>
              Do you mean "administrative law"?  That too is a technical
              term.  It<br>
              refers to "the body of law that governs the activities of<br>
              administrative agencies of government."</blockquote>
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              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif">Technically speaking, every
                  term used in English communications is a
                  technical term. In fact English is dubbed the language
                  of the
                  technocrats by some others. What I was attempting to
                  address was the
                  concept of victim blaming, as the issue was raised in
                  a couple of
                  posts.</font></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif">There are two basic
                  branches of Law, Public and Private. Newcomers first
                  contact with
                  Canada is usually through an administrative agency
                  which vetted their
                  candidate application. Then they become landed and are
                  expected to be
                  able to function within the norms of Canadian law,
                  both public and
                  private, even as while they familiarize themselves
                  with living under
                  the Canadian system of established social norms. </font></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span
                  style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">In this system,
                  ignorance of the law is not a defence to an outright
                  breach of the
                  law, however can be a mitigating factor in determining
                  cause and
                  effect, when it is necessary for a decider to make a
                  determination of
                  remedy for a breach of the law, as that law may be
                  administrated under
                  a Tribunal cluster regime dealing with social and
                  other public
                  justice issues. </span><br>
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              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif">Ideally the Tribunal
                  system allows for individual regions to set the tone
                  of remedy for
                  equitable breaches which are not criminal but have
                  significant
                  detrimental social (not necessarily financial) effect
                  if unchecked.
                  Tribunals and boards are touted as informal resolution
                  services. This
                  is supposed to spare the parties and the State the
                  burden of the very
                  high costs of court time in settlement. </font><span
                  style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Not to say that
                  Tribunals don't have significant cost in their own
                  right, but they are much less than
                  formal court proceedings. </span></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span
                  style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Private law
                  deals with formal financial remedies
                  for unlawful breaches of mutually agreed upon contract
                  terms under
                  privity of contract. </span></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif">The CRTC is one
                  established administrative authority of government and
                  actually does
                  govern cellular communications licensing as a trust
                  issue. </font></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif">I'd like to be clear
                  on this, although it's only my personal opinion, any
                  monies collected
                  in advance and held by a business owner establishes a
                  formal trust. Certain things have come to pass due to
                  the practices of phone
                  services bundling hardware provision with service
                  provision. </font></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span
                  style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">In the
                  land-line days, prior to WiFi mobile  cellular, the
                  courts forced phone
                  companies to allow consumers to actually be able to
                  purchase their own home phones
                  and even to hook them up inside their homes
                  themselves, as opposed to only renting them from the
                  services provider and having only the providers
                  technicians inspect
                  and repair them. </span><br>
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              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif">More recently
                  cellular companies were forced to allow carrier
                  unlocking. This
                  is why the CRTC now want's consumer input on moving
                  forward with
                  establishing effective future regulations. Even on
                  this list the
                  right to repair is a topical issue, so administrative
                  law is always a
                  factor, whether it is immediately obvious or not.</font></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif">From the CRTC webpage ...</font></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif">"What is the
                  CRTC?</font></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif">The Canadian
                  Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
                  (CRTC) was created
                  by the Parliament of Canada to regulate and supervise
                  broadcasting
                  and telecommunications in Canada. This includes the
                  radio,
                  television, cell phone, and Internet services that you
                  and other
                  Canadians rely on every day. With headquarters in the
                  National
                  Capital Region, the CRTC reports to Parliament through
                  the Minister
                  of Canadian Heritage."</font></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><a
                  href="https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/acrtc/acrtc.htm"
                  style="color:rgb(0,0,128)" target="_blank"
                  rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"><font
                    face="tahoma, sans-serif">https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/acrtc/acrtc.htm</font></a></p>
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                  I happened to read this
                  today:<br>
                  <<a
href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-supreme-court-ruling-could-quell-chaos-surrounding-administrative-law/"
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                    rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.theglobeandmail.c</a>><br>
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                  I
                  think that you were talking about law in general. 
                  Administrative<br>
                  law only matters when you want to challenge
                  government administrative<br>
                  decisions.</font></blockquote>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:115%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif">Interesting. Here is an
                  article on the
                  debate relating to standards of Judicial review of
                  legal decisions
                  made by both administrative Tribunals and the Courts
                  of Justice.</font></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:115%;background:transparent"><font
                  style="color:rgb(0,0,128)" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a
href="https://ablawg.ca/2018/07/23/the-great-divide-on-standard-of-review-in-canadian-administrative-law/"
                    style="color:rgb(0,0,128)" target="_blank"
                    rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">https://ablawg.ca/2018/07/23/the-great-divide-on-standard-of-review-in-canadian-administrative-law/</a></font></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:115%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif">In Ontario some of the other
                  administrative Tribunal bodies include the Ontario
                  Human Rights
                  Tribunal and the Landlord Tenant Board. Both of these
                  administrative
                  agencies and many others were recently clustered under
                  a new umbrella
                  name as Tribunals Ontario, </font></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:115%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif">A great deal of Canadians
                  day to day
                  business is dealt with by administrative Tribunals,
                  but I don't think
                  even the Supreme Court couldn't help you with a
                  remedy, if you were
                  expected to understand it's not wise to share your
                  personal SIN under
                  certain circumstances and you did so anyway. </font></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:115%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif">The problems newcomers face
                  such as
                  language and financial barriers are somewhat
                  alleviated by the
                  creation of Non Government Organizations as settlement
                  agencies. But
                  the demand on training and information services is
                  high, the costs of
                  service delivery are rising and there is a significant
                  shortage of
                  funding to be able to engage enough skilled
                  individuals to act in
                  counselling, training and educational roles. </font></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:115%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif">I always think back to the
                  writers A &
                  H Toffler and their original work Future Shock when I
                  sense that
                  language use is changing too rapidly for me to fully
                  grasp the subtle
                  and contextual nuances of that changing language as it
                  is used in
                  communications, legal or other.</font></p>
              <p
                style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:115%;background:transparent"><font
                  face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a
                    href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock"
                    target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
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