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From: "Jack Davis"
Subject: Re: Look Who Woke Up Salivating
While this pitiful person is no more than a cypher, the Law does not
accept ignorance as an excuse. Wouldn't it be sweet if he were
prosecutable for his blatant attempt at industrial sabotage. (I'm going
back into my trance now)
With the number of laws that are now on the books, can anyone legitimately
argue that knowing all the laws is possible?
This is moving somewhat into OT of an already OT topic, but I had this
conversation with a couple of the lawyers in my wife's office a while back.
I asked how many laws there were.
They both got a kind of deer in the headlights look, and asked me to define
my question.
I clarified by saying that to live where I live, I need to know Canadian
criminal and civil law, the laws of the province I live in, the laws of the
RM surrounding the city I live in, plus civic statutes, as well as the
highway traffic act plus any provincial and city traffic bylaws.
This doesn't take into account the possibility that I might travel or missed
something.
When phrased that way, they couldn't give an answer, but figured it was
definitely in excess of 20,000 laws, with the target moving every day.
I doubt very strongly that anyone knows all the laws.
Ignorance of the law is now a reality, and could certainly be used as an
excuse.
William Robb
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