The recent Auditor General Report in highly critical of the Ontario Government’s regulation of the cost of insurance in Ontario.
As quoted by the CBC at http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/12/05/auditor-general-ontario-spending.html?cmp=rss :
The number of people killed or injured in auto accidents in Ontario fell 25 per cent in a decade, but the government still guarantees insurers a “reasonable rate of return” of 12 per cent. That figure was last adjusted in 1996, when the long-term bond rate it was based on was 10 per cent.
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Comments Off (0)AFGHANISTAN AND THE RULE OF LAW
The invitation to the Red Mass announced my topic this morning as the “Rule of Law in Afghanistan.” As an officer with Hamilton’s Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, I recently spent 8 months in Afghanistan with another Argyll officer helping to train the Afghan National Army. Because I am also a personal injury lawyer here in Hamilton, the topic of the “Rule of Law in Afghanistan”, I suppose, seemed an obvious one for a lawyer and a soldier but I am certain that most of you would be hard-pressed, given the almost daily coverage of Canada’s mission, to think that the rule of law had anything to do with Afghanistan. I will not disabuse you of that notion. My topic is more centred on the rule of law and Ontario than it is on Afghanistan although I will certainly touch upon it. Imagine: Warring factionalism, invading armies, hostile groups, the widespread use of political violence, the tentative hold of the administration of justice, political instability, and the use of public execution to make brutal examples to an uncertain populace.
