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Are you looking for an election issue? Erik Andersen, Gabriola Island, BC
An election issue for both the Federal and Provincial elections should be "Unfair Contracts Relief" as proposed by the British Columbia Law Institute. The Institute identified the unfairness of contracting in BC early in the present century. Their first report was delivered as a draft in 2005 and their final report in 2011. "This report recommends reforms to the leading concepts used by contract law to tackle the problem of unfairness. These concepts are unconscionability, duress, undue influence, good faith, and misrepresentation." To illustrate the intellectual status of this report there were 10 prominent organisations and many individuals who financially sponsored this work, including the Department of Justice Canada. So after nearly two decades of identifying shortcomings in Canadian/BC contract law we (still) have no legislative improvements as proposed by the Institute. The obvious take away here is that those in favour of contracts that employ duress. undue influence, bad faith and deception have convinced the serving politicians to do nothing to make our province and country a place of fairness. For those interested in the numbers of dollars contracted for on behalf of every person here in BC, for the year 2016; the total was $100,000,000,000
(i.e. $100 billion) of contractual obligations (Auditor General's Report Feb 2017). This amount is on top of "debt" as reported by the BC Comptroller General. Using StatsCan statistics, that amounts to $21,515 of contractual obligations for every man, women and child living in BC. The next highest amount in Canada is Quebec at $10,656 per capita. None of this includes what obligations the Federal Government has tied to us all. In that $100 billion total, $60 billion plus Site C, etc. was in the form of contracts with Independent Power Producers. When a contract average term of 30 years is used, that means an annual payment of $2 billion every year for 30 more years. Since BC Hydro does not show any accumulating assets from these payments, this $2 billion is not an investment but rather a rental amount all BC Hydro customers must pay. Again, using the 2016 statistics, that equals the huge sucking sound of money leaving the pockets of every soul in BC at a rate of about $430 per year. These numbers should help your readers understand why the Institute saw a problem in contract law but it should also illustrate that those with the job and capacity to use legislation for social justice purposes have been looking the other way for nearly two decades. Now how is that for an election issue? – Erik, twolabradors@shaw.ca ♣
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Links from Herb Spencer, Surrey BC Most important advance in medical knowledge I am forwarding this important article (LINK) because this is the most important advance in medical knowledge in many years. Learn about our unique biomes; the second brain. http://www.thehealingmiracle.com/food-and-your-mood-howyour-diet-controls-your-brain/ ♣
The Real History Lesson of WWI Here’s a story few know about, how Fake News (c.1900) triggered the major disasters of the 20th Century. Read how a few powerful Englishmen plotted for the continuation of their glorious Empire. LINK: https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-the-world-war-i-conspiracy/5659905 ♣ www.dialogue.ca
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The Pro-Israel lobby Who’s Telling the Truth About the Israel Lobby and Anti-Semitism? Here are two experts who have studied this group of Super-Lobbyists. https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/02/15/whostelling-the-truth-about-the-israel-lobby-andanti-semitism/ From Herb Spencer spsi99@telus.net ♣ VOL. 32, NO. 3-SE, SPRING 2019
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