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  • The Constitution Act, 1982 doesn’t lay out how elections or electoral finances or voting or campaigns, etc are to be handled. The Constitution only says that elections have to happen every 5 years (s.4 of the Charter and s. 50) and anyone who can vote can be a MP/MPP/MLA (s.3 of the Charter), the conditions to suspend elections (s.4(2) of the Charter), and how many and how ridings are created for Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia(s. 40), and electoral officers (s.83) for Ontario and Quebec. The ridings and the electoral officers are subject to federal or provincial law.

    Section 51(1) does lay how to readjust the ridings.

    On a fun fact about the Constitution. Many people think it takes 7 provinces with 50 percent of the population to change the Constitution. Certain sections can be changed with a simple vote in the House and/or Provincial Legislature to change.

    https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/FullText.html

    How elections are run is decided by either the Elections Act at the Federal level or a Province’s version of the Elections Act.


  • Don’t sign up for a class action law suit. File your own claim in a small claims court. You’ll get more money out of the law suit. Also, if everyone filed a small claims law suit, the companies would have to pay out more.

    If a 100 people each sued for $20,000. That would be $200,000. Each of those 100 claims costs the company about 10 hours in billable hours and the lawyers are charing $500 per hour. That’s about $50,000 gone.

    Now, let’s say 100,000 people sue for $20,000, that’s $2,000,000,000 being paid out with $500,000,000 in legal fees.

    1,000,000 people at $20,000 is $20,000,000,000 to be paid out with $5,000,000,000 in legal fees.


  • I remember reading years ago (2010?) from a lawyer who declined to get involved in a class action law suit against a car manufacture (Honda or Toyota?). The lawyer wanted to file in Small Claims and wanted other people to do it as they would get bigger pay outs and it would cost the car manufacture more money through litigating numerous law suits.