INTRODUCTION It is January 2015, and in history’s rear-view mirror the publication date of Unjust by Design is rapidly receding (as is the book’s shortlisting for the Donner Prize). Looking forward through history’s front window, no spark of interest in the […]
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– Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press – Tues, 2 Dec, 2014: … Terminal cancer patients, organ-transplant recipients and suicidal, debt-addled Canadians are among the 11,000 people waiting to have their appeals heard by Ottawa’s badly backlogged social security tribunal. … Federal
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CLARIFICATION FROM THE LOOPY CAPOLOGIST My October 8, 2014, posting on the cap issue, was intended to be satirical – sarcastic, even; and my list of “21 Reasons for Capping an Adjudicator’s Service at 10 Years” was intended to show
For site visitors who might not have seen this, here is more evidence of the federal government’s disrespectful, minimalist approach to the adjudication of rights in its administrative justice system. http://metronews.ca/news/canada/1172725/benefits-arbitrators-dont-get-benefits/
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INTRODUCTION Readers will have seen from an earlier post that, in Ontario, over the next two or three years, the government’s new 10-year cap on every tribunal adjudicator’s appointments is likely to become the subject of some controversy. I am,