LAW 534 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Conservation Authorities Act, Ontario Food Terminal, Mitigating Factor
24 Apr 2016
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Due diligence: to use this defense, a person must prove that he took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence. If he can do so he is entitled to be acquitted. 1-15- the province of ontario failed to enact a legally enforceable regulation requiring the prompt and direct reporting of the test results indicating unsafe drinking water to the ministry of the environment (moe) and to the local. This failure contributed to the extent of the outbreak that occurred in walkerton in may 2000. 1-16. 1- lessons to be learned through the walkerton case: More respect should be paid to scientific experts, where the. 1-16. 2- o"connor offers a prescription for change with specific recommendations: the multi-barrier approach which asses each risk on its own and considers how best to avoid the risk. Precautionary principle: in order to achieve sustainable development, policies must be based on the precautionary principle.
