World CP Day message from our Provincial Spokesperson. Marco Pasqua, CPABC’s Provincial Spokesperson, talks about World CP Day and being proud about CP all year round. Happy World Cerebral Palsy Day! After years of social isolation because of COVID, now more than ever access to therapies, services and social programs for people with cerebral palsy have …
Legal services provided in BC are, unlike any other professional services, subject to provincial sales tax (PST). Accordingly, consumers in BC have a more difficult time obtaining legal help. They can hire an accountant, architect, veterinarian or any other professional. For some bizarre reason, justice fell to the bottom of the list of governmental priorities as only legal fees are effectively increased by 7% due to this special tax.
Each of the parents were awarded $250,000 for “Loss of Care, Guidance, and Companionship”. In BC, they would have been awarded $0 because of the section of WESA which bars non-pecuniary damages awards in fatality claims.
Ceilings unfairly impact those who became victims of grievous personal injuries, whose situations could be improved by a proper award. Justice for the individual and the catastrophically injured person is sacrificed for the sake of predictability and ease of assessment.
Civil wrongs occur when a person wrongly suffers a loss caused by another person, a business, or government. Wrongful losses can be damage to property or reputation, unmet contractual obligations, physical or psychological injury, etc. Sometimes these wrongs fall into both criminal and civil legal categories. However, criminal wrongs require bad intent and are prosecuted and punishable by the state. On the other hand, Civil wrongs do not require bad intent and require private individuals to pursue justice on their own.
People want to be free. They want to be able to go about their lives without their health and liberty being taken away by bad drivers. People hate being surveilled and controlled. People hate ICBC because of its power over them. Who, in their right mind, would think that the solution to any problem is to take even more power from the individual and shift it to an undemocratic dumpster?
The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted our lives, but it will soon be a memory. On the other hand, the carnage on our roads will persist. Instead of addressing the root cause of high insurance premiums -namely the frequency and severity of MVCs – the NDP savaged the ability of good drivers to recover their hopes …
Fairness matters … to both people and primates. Sharing priceless footage of capuchin monkeys responding to perceived injustice, primatologist Sarah Brosnan explores why humans and monkeys evolved to care about equality — and emphasizes the connection between a healthy, cooperative society and everyone getting their fair share.
Justice can only be achieved when those who have no power are put on an equal footing with those who have power.
To my followers, sorry about the hiatus. The emergence of Renaud Law Group from its prior incarnation, the Pandemic, and the NDP’s recent concerted attack on the tort system/civil liberties have been something of a distraction.