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Question of the Week (Class 4): Should there be “should’s” in S. 3 of the Broadcasting Act?

As we started discussing last week, S.3 of the Broadcasting Act (S.C. 1991, c. 11) is bit different from most other statutory provisions you might have come across. It is rather full of the word “should”. This is in stark contrast to most statutory drafting norms and, interestingly for our purposes, quite different in style if not […]