Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
Well done Québec!

I am pleased to see that Québec is leading the fight in Canada for 21st century industrial standards. Industry serves society, not the other way round.

Child labour was abolished. The 14 hours a day, six days a week horror was abolished. Environmental regulations have been imposed. Safety and Health regulations have been imposed.
At all these steps, industry scaremongered that 'we can't compete if we do!!1' As it turned out, we could. Currently, excessive annoyances are targeted. Great. Modernise, or move to India or Guatemala.
I do not see why industry should be excempt from fair and reasonable standards of behaviour that a natural person must abide with.


Unless I am sorely mistaken, I think this Court decision brings Québec in line with French legal practise. Needless to say, I am entralled to see my Québécois brethren emancipating themselves from the Anglo practise of perennial industrial priviliges.
As I said (and as has been demonstrated historically in the past in Quebec, i.e. textile industry, WalMart), industry won't complain, they just won't stay. They'll go somewhere else.

At any rate, I don't think you read the article in your burst of francophone-solidarity driven exhuberance. This company is complying with all environmental regulations. Yet they are still getting sued as if they have done something wrong.