“Work, work, work”
Among the bills passed or on track to be passed in the current sitting of the House of Assembly:
- Making illegal what is already illegal: Changes to the Highway Traffic Act to make it illegal to send text messages while driving a car. The Act currently prohibits the use of cellular telephones while driving. Cell phones are the device people use to send text messages.
- And then exempting people from the cell phone ban: The list of exemptions under the new version of the Act is as impressive as it is vague in places. It includes police, fire and other emergency responders, people texting or calling someone about something that is allowed under regulations and a whole undefined class of people – like maybe politicians? - specifically allowed to talk on cellular telephones and do other similar things while driving that ordinary folks are barred from doing.
- The Court Security Act 2010. Repeats word for word the Court Security Act (passed in 2004 but never enacted) and includes two minor amendments that could have been done by amending the existing Act.
- The Architects Act 2008, amendment bill: makes minor amendments to an Act passed in 2008 but not yet in force. See?
- Three separate bills that change the Insurance Companies Act: they could have been one bill or a complete revision of the old Act. Here’s the first amendment bill.
- A bill to postpone the date for a report on salaries and benefits for provincial court judges.
- Two separate amendments to the Income Tax Act that could have been done in one bill.
It’s like government by a bunch of people who learned everything they know from some online university in the States, like say the William J. Le Petomane School of Government, run by Dean Hedley Lamarr.
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