Hansard Issue: L119A

Session: 38:2
Date: Nov 14, 2006

http://hansardindex.ontla.on.ca/hansardeissue/38-2/l119a.htm

To do with anti-red tape bill:

Mr. Yakabuski: On the issue I started with, the Renfrew Home Bakery: I started with how I believe the federal government has a better handle on circumstances affecting rural communities and rural Ontario than this government does. A case in point: We don't want to have a situation like we had last year where church suppers are being shut down, sandwiches are being Javexed and farmers' markets are shut down because somebody comes in and takes a piece of legislation and enforces it to the letter of the law. With all due respect to the member for Beaches-East York, yes, they are carrying out the law and we pass these laws, but everybody has got to have judgment too. There's the letter of the law and there's the spirit of the law. And when people are bent on enforcing the letter of the law, they lose the spirit of the law many times. That's why you have church suppers being shut down in the province by this government over here.