Bookmarking section 217.1 of the Criminal Code (in force via the Westray Law) that creates legal duty on people overseeing work of others to take all reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to those others
While I am here perhaps it is time to start a discussion around criminal negligence causing homicide for bad medical advice/studies provided to the public.
Short thread discussing the engineering act (engineers need licence to practice) - is air/ventilation and engineering practice? Should doctors shut up?
And CMA and ethics on Canadian doctors again to put forth true and accurate information.
Thinking out loud, but when guidance is promulgated from a gov department that businesses must absolutely follow, and that guidance is negligent/wrong, I fail to see how the government dept can escape liability.
Similar thought, and consider product liability cases ...
Great irony:
In this case plaintiff dismissed from job because wouldn't wear N95. (He won $3000 for that being a reprisal)
- Ryan Reed v Allan Pipe Fab Inc., 2021 CanLII 18880 (ON LRB) canlii.org/en/on/onlrb/do…
Asking again why we have 34 indep medical officers of health handling pandemic response (or supposed to), with CMOH on top, then provincial political layer, then federal PHAC, and fed political layer ...?
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one central command like Taiwan (1100 cases, 12 deaths)