Global- Ford government to appeal court ruling which deemed bike lane removal unconstitutional
In his ruling, Superior Court Justice Paul Schabas said the province’s move to take out bike lanes would be “inconsistent” with the constitutional protection of life, liberty and security. The ruling said an updated version of the law, passed in June and requiring bike lane reconfiguration instead of removal, would also breach the charter.
Amazing. That judge has just ruled that “constitutional” means that the judge agrees that something is a good law.
He would be just as correct to rule that it is unconstitutional for the city to not give all residents really nice bikes.
FILTHY LIBERALS
like Big Fat Disgusting Blubber Dougie are too stupid to use the Notwithstanding Clause.
Put down the Donut and do your damn job you pathetic CARNEY BOOTLICKER.
FILTHY LIBERALS
It’s the media that called it “constitutional”. The judge struck it down under the Charter, which can only apply to a constitutionally-valid law.
And, the judge is right that it’s all about what he likes. The only purpose of the Charter is to empower the judges to act on behalf of the Liberal Party. If he’s a good Liberal, he likes what the Party likes.
Paul Schabas is clearly brain dead.
Sick. Simply sick. However a nation that treats medical care as a human right … that someone else should pay for … then runs the system so incompetently as to effectively deny medical care is capable of such sickness. A bike lane has been deemed a human right. Oh! And all those immigrants nobody voted to flood into your nation? Yeah … Canadian citizenship is THEIR human right too. They deserve just as luxurious a lifestyle as all you ‘white’ Canadians.
“In one of his prominent commercial cases, he was called out by the Court in its decision for having not been truthful in an appeal about what transpired at trial”
In what universe would someone who was “not…Truthful” be appointed to the bench? Oh yeah Trudeau land.
In any case, the war on the car continues in Toronto. Bloor Street from Kipling to the Humber River is largely impassible during rushhour resulting in travel times of up to 24 minutes to travel 3.8 KM as a result of these bike lanes or 9.5 kph for a road that used to be 50kph, but was reduced when the bike lanes were foisted on everyone without proper consultation. The other problem they created as a result of these bike lanes is that alternate streets are similarly slowed as a result of people trying to take alternate routes.
Every once in a while, you need to shake things up so the critters don’t get so full of themselves.
having rear ended the Taurus on the wettest road ever in 2007 (and retiring early that same year cdnt afford a car didnt need one.
so l put 5000-10000 kms on my 45 yr old Raleigh. the model with the gear change lever on the tips of the traditional curved loopy handlebars.
2 of 4 cables original. when l sell lm gonna strip it and tape what l cant then take the frame to an body shop match the original greenish grey brownish finish and repaint it. then Derek my mechanic reassembles it. lve even polished up the rims shiny.
anyways for me bike lanes are a godsend and l cycle year round. lve been and seen both sides 60 years. late learner.
l recuse myself.
I’ve been yelled at by motorists who felt that I “should” be only riding in the bike lanes.
I’ve yelled back, it’s mildly amusing for a minute, but passes far too quickly.
The city of Edmonton has been drunk on the bike lane kool-aid for nearly 3 decades. Even worse than this is the fact their new land use bylaw makes motor vehicle parking completely voluntary. That’s right, you don’t have to provide one stall for many different land zones. Not for residents, not for visitors, not one. However, you must provide a minimum of one bike parking stall for each suite. Of these bike parking stalls, 80% must be indoors. Let’s suppose you’re building an apartment with an underground parkade. Current costs show that a parkade will run you $40-50,000 per vehicle stall. You’ll fit about 8 bikes in the space of one car parking stall, so do the math….that’s a lot of coin to park your $50 garage sale special. And then these arrogant, ignorant city pricks who made this policy wonders why no one wants to build low cost housing. The City of Edmonton (and probably other municipalities) land use bylaws are starting to read more like left wing dogma than land development guidelines of yesteryear. It used to be, so long as your building fit within the required setbacks and under the maximum height, you were good to go but now we are starting to see what the Karl Schwabb WEF manifesto looks like when put into practice. Forget what your federal government is doing vis a vis social engineering. Marxism is alive and well at the municipal level.
When judges go loopy there is the notwithstanding clause. Use it moron.