grte@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 27 days agoLiberal Loophole Will Let Dark Money Fund Election Ads, Critic Warnswww.readthemaple.comexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up1136arrow-down13
arrow-up1133arrow-down1external-linkLiberal Loophole Will Let Dark Money Fund Election Ads, Critic Warnswww.readthemaple.comgrte@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 27 days agomessage-square15linkfedilink
minus-squaremagnetosphere@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up21·27 days agoI suppose this “loophole” was intentional. (Disclaimer: the previous statement was made based on nothing but cynicism and decades of reading the news.)
minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·27 days agoIt always is. Lawyers write laws, often lobbying groups submitting what they want legislators to introduce as is… and they are extremely pedantic. Loopholes are 100% intentional.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-225 days agoIt’s pretty hard to write a law without loopholes. Like, you can’t even write computer code that well and laws are a whole lot less precise. The courts of appeal (including the Supreme Court) are kept busy mostly by all the weird edge cases that inevitably crop up.
I suppose this “loophole” was intentional.
(Disclaimer: the previous statement was made based on nothing but cynicism and decades of reading the news.)
It always is. Lawyers write laws, often lobbying groups submitting what they want legislators to introduce as is… and they are extremely pedantic. Loopholes are 100% intentional.
It’s pretty hard to write a law without loopholes. Like, you can’t even write computer code that well and laws are a whole lot less precise.
The courts of appeal (including the Supreme Court) are kept busy mostly by all the weird edge cases that inevitably crop up.