A history lesson for Hugh McFadyen

Some astute readers may remember the name Roger Bilodeau. In the early 1980s he successfully fought a traffic ticket on the grounds that the law behind it (along with virtually all other Manitoba laws) was invalid on a technicality, namely that the law had not been translated into French. Of course, the laws continued to be enforced, subject to the condition that the province had to translate them within a certain period of time. Presumably McFadyen, and Kelvin Goertzen, Bonnie Mitchelson, and the rest, would say that anyone who had ever been convicted of a provincial offense in the province before that point should have their fines refunded. Heck, maybe we should be paying the estates of people who paid fines in the distant past. Adjusted for inflation, even.

Needless to say, I'm not holding my breath waiting for the Tories to advocate this.