Notes on the silly and the absurd, and the downright harmful - Political and Bureacratic Regulatory Fiascos

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has released a 10 point list of the above-titled items.  I can't reprint the article myself because of another absurdity - copyright law.

see: http://business.financialpost.com/entrepreneur/top-10-absurd-bureaucratic-policies-win-2017s-paperweight-awards

I can add a few of my own:

1.  Canada Post's stupid 'LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION' form and other postal rules: permitting a post-box holder to have a neighbor or friend pick up his mail while he is away from home for more than 14 days, and the penalty for failure to pick up parcels within 14 days (the penalty: parcels must be sent back to sender). The form contains 3 separate places where the homeowner must print his or her name, and two places for a signature, plus 2 places for dates. Annoyingly stupid.

2.  Saskatchewan government's setting absurd highway speed limits: down from the normal 110 or 100 kph on highways in the not-so-immediate vicinity of highway construction, lasting for many kilometres with no construction nearby; and allowing highway construction crews or maintenance workers on very temporary job sites to post drastically reduced speed limit signs several kilometres and more on either side of off-road work being done.  In some egregious instances, 60 kph speed limits have been left posted covering more than 40 kilometres for many weeks after work was completed and workers and machines were completely absent.

Nevertheless, the same politicians bureaucrats responsible are grossly overpaid for their disservice out of hard-earned income taken for taxes, heaping more insult and injury on hapless taxpayers.