Going by those photos, he is about the most un-Green looking Green politician I have ever seen.
He has fundamentally implausible hair.
Comparing the three photos, he seems to be employing the tactic of de-emphasizing the contrast between lotsa-skin and little-hair by just shaving off the latter entirely, but isn't doing it regularly enough.
(To be fair, that's kinda my default approach to facial hair. I dislike having a beard, but sometimes appear to have one, just because I'm too lazy to shave every day.)
The Legislation. Act, 2006. It replaced the old Interpretation Act. s.12 explicitly deals with what happens when a bill is Reserved to the Governor General.
Who said Reservation and Disallowance is a spent power?
Well it doesn’t actually mention disallowance…. Though arguably it wouldn’t anyway since it is only dealing with Bills that have become effective law.
On a more substantial note, a while back I stumbled across the City of Toronto case in the Supreme Court from 2021 where in the early days of the Ford government the province had gratuitously messed with the city’s electoral districts in the middle of an actual municipal election. The case ultimately went all the way to the SCC and the Court divided 5-4 on whether unwritten principles could be used to invalidate the provincial legislation. The majority said no, which might support SPK’s view that the continued existence of the provision that allows for disallowance should take priority over any unwritten principles (i.e., federalism) that suggests otherwise. Of course it also meant that Ford was within his constitutional powers to make a chaos of our municipal election but c’est la vie.*
I still remember the Flamborough Liberation Front, trying to throw off the yoke if Hamilton.
Were they just kind of a playful assertion of local identity, maybe with an eye toward community self-promotion and possibly tourism bucks?
Edmonton annexed the city of Strathcona some time in the early C20, and the area just east of the university started gentrifying into a hip arts/bar district in the early 80s or so. Shortly thereafter, the neighbourhood boosters started promoting the idea of Old Strathcona as a separate city, with the head of the rep-theatre voted "Lady Mayor" or some such. Not sure how long that lasted for(or if it even still continues), but I don't think it ever really became part of the public consciousness.
A troubling development in this area of Ontario has been Ford's trump-like decision to discontinue the election of regional chairpersons and take on himself the authority to appoint them. I am not at all involved in local politics, but I am well aware that Waterloo Region council is chaired by a responsive, competent and popular woman who is close to the people.
A troubling development in this area of Ontario has been Ford's trump-like decision to discontinue the election of regional chairpersons and take on himself the authority to appoint them. I am not at all involved in local politics, but I am well aware that Waterloo Region council is chaired by a responsive, competent and popular woman who is close to the people.
And we can probably assume Ford is the kinda guy who would scream against a unitary state ruling over Canada from Parliament Hill, but be happy to impose one ruling over Ontario from Queen's Park.
(In fairness, while I recognize and hopefully understand the issues at play in federal vs. local and appointed vs. elected rule, I am not of settled opinion on the matter, and increasingly just cheer for whichever model's avatars in a given controversy are pushing the agenda best reflecting my own overall worldview. See "states' rights to pass pro-scab labour laws vs. states' rights to free the weed" for an example of an American dichotomy along these lines.)
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He has fundamentally implausible hair.
Comparing the three photos, he seems to be employing the tactic of de-emphasizing the contrast between lotsa-skin and little-hair by just shaving off the latter entirely, but isn't doing it regularly enough.
(To be fair, that's kinda my default approach to facial hair. I dislike having a beard, but sometimes appear to have one, just because I'm too lazy to shave every day.)
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/06l21
The Legislation. Act, 2006. It replaced the old Interpretation Act. s.12 explicitly deals with what happens when a bill is Reserved to the Governor General.
Who said Reservation and Disallowance is a spent power?
On a more substantial note, a while back I stumbled across the City of Toronto case in the Supreme Court from 2021 where in the early days of the Ford government the province had gratuitously messed with the city’s electoral districts in the middle of an actual municipal election. The case ultimately went all the way to the SCC and the Court divided 5-4 on whether unwritten principles could be used to invalidate the provincial legislation. The majority said no, which might support SPK’s view that the continued existence of the provision that allows for disallowance should take priority over any unwritten principles (i.e., federalism) that suggests otherwise. Of course it also meant that Ford was within his constitutional powers to make a chaos of our municipal election but c’est la vie.*
Text of the decision in case anyone is curious…
https://canlii.ca/t/jjc3d
(*that’s life)
I still remember the Flamborough Liberation Front, trying to throw off the yoke if Hamilton.
Were they just kind of a playful assertion of local identity, maybe with an eye toward community self-promotion and possibly tourism bucks?
Edmonton annexed the city of Strathcona some time in the early C20, and the area just east of the university started gentrifying into a hip arts/bar district in the early 80s or so. Shortly thereafter, the neighbourhood boosters started promoting the idea of Old Strathcona as a separate city, with the head of the rep-theatre voted "Lady Mayor" or some such. Not sure how long that lasted for(or if it even still continues), but I don't think it ever really became part of the public consciousness.
They were serious, they wanted out and felt betrayed by the Harris Conservatives.
So the Hamilton region was amalgamated at the same time as the GTA?
Thanks.
And we can probably assume Ford is the kinda guy who would scream against a unitary state ruling over Canada from Parliament Hill, but be happy to impose one ruling over Ontario from Queen's Park.
(In fairness, while I recognize and hopefully understand the issues at play in federal vs. local and appointed vs. elected rule, I am not of settled opinion on the matter, and increasingly just cheer for whichever model's avatars in a given controversy are pushing the agenda best reflecting my own overall worldview. See "states' rights to pass pro-scab labour laws vs. states' rights to free the weed" for an example of an American dichotomy along these lines.)
Much of Ontario's history with provincial autonomy was more about Queen's Patk wanting to be the top dog in people's lives, not Parliament Hill.