After running out of things to ban in Toronto, they have now resorted to targeting sunlight and its effects on children.
Parents cannot be trusted to adequately look out for their children’s safety in this regard, so the City of Toronto is implementing a pilot project including “shade audits” that could end up resulting in the City attempting to regulate shade.
…A future policy could dictate the ratio of shade required based on the number of children that typically play in an area–and not just from trees, but from city-built special canopy structures, screens and sails. ..
One would assume that the City of Toronto would have megatons of excess money with which to fund these studies, the required structures, and all the bureaucracy that would go along with it.
Either that, or else they firmly believe that you can’t put a cost on protecting the children of Toronto from their irresponsible, slovenly, popcorn-and-beer-consuming parents.
But the problem remains that parents might take their children out of the city where there are no protective sunshine bans.
Perhaps His Blondness and Co. should just ban parenting altogether, and move all the kids into a huge sun-protected Government Care Centre. Mandatory uniforms would consist of helmets and bubble-wrap for each child. Taxes would have to go up drastically, but what price can you put on the safety of Toronto’s children? David knows best. Parents would be required to forward their child-tax credit directly to Mr. Miller.
Parental visitation of their growing genetic material would be strictly controlled by the City State, after having passed appropriate blood and urine tests, and proving that their carbon-footprint card for the previous week has been approved by the Green Police.
Sunday non-denominational services would include sermons on ‘inclusiveness’ and compulsory repeated viewings of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.
It would be a gun-free, peanut-free zone of course.
And a brain-free zone.
But that was the point all along.
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Monday Update: Cellphones safe for children: Health Canada – No evidence to support Toronto recommendation (Post) H/T Diogenes Borealis.
