Splitdipless

There was a war on - all the real heros were fighting overseas?

The Canadian naval custom of naming ships after locales started in WWII, most notably as a alternative naming strategy for the 'Flower Class' Corvettes. While the UK found great utility of the thought of a German U-Boat getting sunk by a HMS Pansy, Canada wanted to give a sense of involvement in the war, so that the people of Chilliwack can feel a sense of pride when their HMCS Chilliwack participates in the sinking of U-744, for example. That cuts both ways of course, like for HMCS Lévis... The result of being able to fund-raise and create Navy Leagues to assist in the welfare of sailors at that time significantly helped with the life of RCN, RCNR and RCNVR sailors at that time.

In LDs though, the name 'Parliament' class is a bit odd. If they are naming after places with a Parliament, Toronto makes sense because Queen's Park is here, but Vancouver wouldn't have a Parliament. The capitol of BC is Victoria...

Well, depends. It certainly can be used in a variety of situations. The basis of the notwithstanding clause doesn't require that rights be set aside, it can be used to identify that an interpretation of rights is incorrect. For instance, where rights have been determined in the outcome of a case that isn't deliberately mentioned in the relevant act, it would be perfectly acceptable for parliament to use the notwithstanding clause to say "no, that's not what is written in the law we wrote." The 'threat' of using the notwithstanding cause in Ontario recently in the Ford government is a good example of that. They ended up not needing it because the courts determined that the original ruling was probably 'wrong' before it was needed...

In this case, gender expression is a right that has been established repeatedly despite it not being explicitly mentioned in Section 15. (1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom (the basis is that gender expression is related to the sex of the individual). So, it 'technically' could be used correctly in this situation, but they are certainly assholes for fighting people for expressing their gender when it has been firmly set outside of the language.

I agree. To think that all those suffering Lyme might not have contracted the disease if we had continued offering a Lyme vaccine...

Technically, what it's the parliament saying "this is the law, no matter what anyone else thinks of it." It's not suspension of law - an equal legal branch forming government is a feature of the United States. Here, like a lot of Westminster Parliamentary style governments, democracy is supreme to any rise of a kritarchy.

Sorry Hoss, but DDT doesn't work anymore. http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/bb-ddt.html

Actually, withholding Assent is the circuit breaker. The NWC is a mechanism to ensure that parliament makes the law, not judges. A judge may have a perfectly reason for making their verdict, and it totally makes sense to do so by a good number of the populous, but parliament is in charge and they're allowed to set the rules.

Drug Ford passed a law shrinking city council after the whole 'election thing' kinda started. People got a judge to say that's unconstitutional (and reading the reasons to the verdict - it was all sorts of crazy talk about how it was unconstitutional. Drug Ford said he would use the NWC to pass a replacement law doing the same thing, but that wasn't necessary as the next level of courts looked at the original ruling, went "yeah, the Government is TOTALLY going to win on appealing this - let's just say they're allowed to resize the council and call it a day."

We needed a database? I thought the answer is generally "yes, they all are."

I'm surprised they also didn't ask if you wanted your ducts cleaned.

I mean... he was an 'Aladdin,' not a Sikh at the "Arabian Nights" themed event at Point Grey Academy.