Legislative drafting, design & interpretation • Parliamentary procedure & administration • Lover of Word & Land • Fier Franco-Ontarien (views are my own)
Eastern Ontario 🇨🇦
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Looking forward to the first day of the CIAJ's Legislative Drafting Conference today - always great to see colleagues from across Canada and to discuss the fascinating world of legislative drafting!
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Just a month until @CIAJ_ICAJ's Legislative Drafting Conference! Looking forward to seeing fellow drafters from across Canada/the world.
I'll be on a panel about drafting interchanges, speaking about drafting in the NWT - a transformative experience.
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To launch the new MLJ Podcast series, Legal Fictions, we asked two McGill Law graduates, Alba Stella Zúñiga Ramos and Hanson Hosein, to share their insight into the many paths out of law school, from municipal politics to filmmaking and journalism.
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Don't miss this #BússolaTech panel tomorrow on the digital transformation of legislative drafting!
So much potential to improve legislation through technology - the choices we make now will have huge repercussions on how laws are developed in the future.
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To avoid straining your eyes at work, use the 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, go for a 20-minute hike and spend the next 20 years in the woods.
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Paging all law students looking for a 2024-2025 articling position!📟@OurCommons is hiring.
Get hands on experience in employment law, constitutional law, parliamentary administration, parliamentary privilege & legislative drafting, among other areas.
Apply by 31 May 2023
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Christmas is around the corner 😉
Published today! More than 8600 pages, 1800 biographies and 30 years in the making... The History of Parliament's "The House of Commons 1640-1660" boybrew.co/43YoW08 @HistParl @MuseumCromwell #EnglishCivilWar #BritishCivilWars #UKParliament
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This is an outstanding piece by @aliceolilly for @TheHouseMag. Essential reading for all British politics or parliamentary studies students:
The Slow Death of Parliamentary Scrutiny politicshome.com/thehouse/ar…
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Posting some sad news just brought to my attention. Ruth Sullivan of “Sullivan on the Construction of Statutes” passed this week. Her texts are THE go-to references for so many of us in the Canadian drafting community and cited in countless decisions. /1 ottawacitizen.remembering.ca…
Paging all law students looking for a 2024-2025 articling position!📟@OurCommons is hiring.
Get hands on experience in employment law, constitutional law, parliamentary administration, parliamentary privilege & legislative drafting, among other areas.
Apply by 31 May 2023
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When you click on one of the 20 tabs of legislation you have open in your browser, wonder why the heck they've defined "Her Majesty" since it's defined in the Interpretation Act, only to realize that THIS IS the Interpretation Act... you know it's been a long week 😅
Had a great morning jaunt along the St Lawrence River. Highly recommend the St Lawrence Marathon for those who love running - and even for those who, like me, mostly hate it.
Rumour has it there are some tacky old jokes in the
EEC Aged Cheddar Cheese Export Regulations, though some argue they're quite sharp...
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When your prohibition is interpreted in a way that results in unintended consequences...
Luckily for the monks, the entire context sheds some light on the meaning of the prohibition - thank God for Driedger!
Got some wild reading plans for the weekend... What musical selections pair best with a BIA? Queen medleys? Black Sabbath albums with songs within songs? Math rock with changing time signatures? All of the above?
Or do I just play Pink Floyd's "Money" on repeat the whole time?
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Quite apart from wondering what the heck the backstory might be to the prohibition on drowning dogs this provision cries out for tabulation - oh, the legislative drafting/statutory interpretation humanity!
Does the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act need to be overhauled to clarify its criteria? @mikepalcanada says yes, because each Commission is interpreting the Act in ways that vary widely across the Canada.
Fascinating to hear from members of Electoral Boundary Commissions at @CSPG_GCEP's seminar this morning - especially their discussion of challenges of reconciling voter parity with effective community representation, particularly for rural/urban/Indigenous communities.
Interesting too to hear about how much the public hearings on initially proposed boundary revisions impacted the Commissions' final proposals, which were often significantly different. Public input gives Commissions a wealth of insight that is essentially in the process.
