conarb
Registered User
That's just the fire sprinkler fiasco, and T Murray I presented the Canadian National Mortgage Association's excellent analysis here and the fire people disregarded it with their usual: "If it saves one life" response, even though they showed the same money invested in other causes could save hundreds if not thousands times more lives.
Who presented and pushed the Accessibility chapter? Who presented and pushed the energy and green codes? Basically codes have become political going far afield from their original agenda of life and safety. We are now taxing carbon and using codes to mandate carbon, now the chairwoman of the United Nations IPCC, Christiana Figueres, has stated on several occasions that carbon taxes have nothing to do with the environment but a way to change the fundamental economic system of the world that has prevailed for the last 150 years. Making provisions for handicapped people, saving energy, and sustainable practices (like mandating bicycle racks) are the political agenda of activist groups, some with vast monetary resources, codes are being bought just like the Coalition of Fire Sprinkler Manufacturers bought their mandate.
How do we clean this up? One way to start is to require an Economic Impact Report on every code proposal, if we have to provide very expensive Environmental Impact Reports to get permits why not an Economic Impact Report for every code proposal? Voting government employees don't care what anything costs, it's not their money.
Who presented and pushed the Accessibility chapter? Who presented and pushed the energy and green codes? Basically codes have become political going far afield from their original agenda of life and safety. We are now taxing carbon and using codes to mandate carbon, now the chairwoman of the United Nations IPCC, Christiana Figueres, has stated on several occasions that carbon taxes have nothing to do with the environment but a way to change the fundamental economic system of the world that has prevailed for the last 150 years. Making provisions for handicapped people, saving energy, and sustainable practices (like mandating bicycle racks) are the political agenda of activist groups, some with vast monetary resources, codes are being bought just like the Coalition of Fire Sprinkler Manufacturers bought their mandate.
How do we clean this up? One way to start is to require an Economic Impact Report on every code proposal, if we have to provide very expensive Environmental Impact Reports to get permits why not an Economic Impact Report for every code proposal? Voting government employees don't care what anything costs, it's not their money.