{"id":10980,"date":"2019-10-11T19:20:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T19:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=10980"},"modified":"2019-10-11T19:20:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T19:20:28","slug":"not-above-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=10980","title":{"rendered":"Not Above the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10984 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lawbreaker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lawbreaker.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lawbreaker-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lawbreaker-768x620.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ontario Premier Doug Ford&#8217;s government broke the law<\/strong> <strong>by not holding public consultations before it scrapped the province&#8217;s cap and trade program, an Ontario court has found.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10985 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Court-Painter-Lawbreaker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Court-Painter-Lawbreaker.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Court-Painter-Lawbreaker-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Court-Painter-Lawbreaker-768x645.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Ontario\u2019s <em>Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR), <\/em>the minister must provide for public notice and comment on proposed regulations and legislation that could have \u201ca significant effect on the environment\u201d at least thirty days before implementation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"article__tweet__text\"><p>One Ontario judge noted that the decision handed Friday\u00a0&#8220;makes a point broader than its\u00a0four corners: it makes the point that <strong>the government is not above the law and may not insulate\u00a0itself from judicial review when it acts unlawfully.<\/strong>&#8221; #onpoli<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario Premier Doug Ford&#8217;s government broke the law by not holding public consultations before it scrapped the province&#8217;s cap and trade program, an Ontario court has found. According to Ontario\u2019s Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR), the minister must provide for public notice and comment on proposed regulations and legislation that could have \u201ca significant effect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=10980\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not Above the Law&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10980"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19765,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions\/19765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}