Network Neutrality: Justifiable Discrimination, Unjustifiable Discrimination, and the Bright Line Between Them
November 30, 2007 | Academic Publications
Canadian Journal of Law and Technology. Volume 6, Issue 3, p. 163.
The servers and data streams which make up the internet in Canada are owned and controlled by corporations like Rogers and Bell. These businesses have potentially enormous power to control how the internet works, and how much it costs you to use it. Should the government regulate the ways they use this power? The answer, as I argue here, is both yes and no. (Winner of the IT.Can 2007 Student Essay Competition)
Network Neutrality (pdf)
The Case for Tribunal Standing in Canada
November 15, 2007 | Academic Publications
Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice. Volume 20, Issue 3, page 305.
“Judicial Review” means a court reviewing a decision made by an administrative tribunal. When judicial review occurs, should the tribunal be allowed to send a lawyer to court to defend its decision? I think it generally should, and this article explains why.
The Case for Tribunal Standing in Canada (pdf)
The Mandatory Pre-Retirement Death Benefit in Pension Legislation: Time for Another Look
November 1, 2007 | Policy Essays
Registered private-sector pension plans in Ontario must, by law, include “pre-retirement death benefits.” This means that, if a pension plan member dies before retiring, the pension plan must pay a sum of money to a relative of the deceased member or to another person chosen by the member beforehand.
How did we end up with this law, and what are its costs and benefits?
In this submission to Ontario’s Expert Commission on Pensions, I offer my perspective on the mandatory pre-retirement death benefit in Ontario’s Pension Benefits Act.
Submission to the Expert Commission