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Until this moment I have been forced to listen while media and politicians alike have told me "what Canadians think". In all that time they never once asked.
This is just the voice of an ordinary Canadian yelling back at the radio -
"You don't speak for me."
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Yes and no.
According to the CEC contractors cannot install an alternate product if a CSA certified product is available. That is not cast in stone; inspectors can and will issue special acceptance under carefully regulated circumstances where a manufacturer can prove his product will meet CSA standards and benchmarks. Or at least that was the way of it 100 years ago when I was using the CSA and CEC inspectors to thwart my competition. (If I should turn up dead one day under suspicious circumstances I just have this to say about that: Beldon Wire & Cable). (Ermmmm …. Possibly Raychem …. And I think the boys at Pyramid would cut my throat for a dime too…). I would have kicked the finks at Leviton in the nads too if it had been in my interest to do so.if any of those bums had been savvy enough they could have done the same to me on several occasions. A few actually did.
You can take some comfort knowing that guys like me are hard at work undermining the very same people trying to undermine us! Your product can play in our market provided you can prove it measures up and you are willing to pay for the testing and certification. If the rules exclude your product, it is because your product does not measure up, and the CSA has to be able to prove it in spades in a court of law. They do this all the time; their testing methods and results are open to constant scrutiny and review. In fact, if I come up with a superior product the CSA has been known to take that product and use it as the new benchmark.
Show me some independent testing from accredited labs – and then you might have a case.
As this story moves forward it seems petty obvious that rent seeking/tollgating was the second oldest profession to develop, although with lesser
status and value than number one, and peddling fake test results for lots of lucre, probably copped position three back at the start of civilization.
Are these CSA wonks also members of FIFA?
CSA’s mission has morphed over the years.
When I was personally involved as a manufacturer in the 80’s, our objective was to develop standards to keep the Americans out of our market.
We were good at it!
Pretty much government enforced monopoly , I mean governance as normal here in the ruins left by Pierre the Idiot.
Elect who ever you want they are powerless to rein in our actual rulers, these kleptocrats use the raw force of government to fatten themselves and their friends.
the system will always be gamed to these ends.
There is no cure, except to starve the beast.
The so called “underground economy” is growing as the over regulated, over exploited and corrupt “real economy” shrinks.
Who knew government help would be so effective?
The electrical code will have to be recreated, by electricians. In its current form it is an unwieldy morass, safety of the citizen is long lost, safety of the tradesman is not even considered.
If you cannot define the hazard, it is near impossible to write a safety manual that works.
Unicorn fencing is more effective than the current rash of specialty safety; must be installed manufacturers proprietary junk.
You will never see a unicorn if you buy the fencing, but no number of useless gadgets will cure stupid.
When I was personally involved as a manufacturer in the 80’s, our objective was to develop standards to keep the Americans out of our market.
So much for the customer being the beneficiary of competition and the free market.
Not unlike the auto insurance scam. If people felt the personal force of a lawsuit in their pocketbook as a result of their careless driving, there’d be a lot more careful drivers. And the rest of us wouldn’t be paying higher rates because of their behaviour.
One of the compulsory costs where one pays and receives nothing. Year after year…
This story is about what happened to me. It has wiped me out financially and forced me out of the industry that I have been in for the last 16 years. Boo Hoo, sucks to be me and a thousand other cliches but in the end I will be fine, I will make back my money and carry on.
What really sucks is that Canada is having countless inventions and technologies buried in the exact same manor not to mention loosing credibility on the world market. Not many companies want to start new technologies here to begin with and this corruption is not going to help.