SKELTON v. A.V.P. DEVELOPMENTS LTD.

Abstract

March 19, 1970 Building — Safety Regulations — Scaffold — Left “partly … dismantled” — Workman properly provided with trestles — User of scaffold for balancing — Whether scaffold “capable of being used” — Construction (Working Places) Regulations, 1966 (S.I. 1966, No. 94), regs. 4, 7, 12.

Balancing the Scales: The Role of the Canadian Supreme Court in Weighing Commercial Speech and Public Health

“…It wrote that "[a]ctivity is expressive if it attempts to convey meaning," and that the advertising at issue "[s]urely [aimed] to convey a meaning, and [could not] be excluded as having no expressive content." 12 In Rocket, the Supreme Court took this analysis of commercial speech under s.2(b) further. It found that the advertising ban placed on dentists contained important information including, for example, "dentists' office hours, the language they speak, and other objective facts relevant to their practice," all information that serves "an important public interest by enhancing the ability of patients to make informed choices."…”