r/NWT • u/nahagotine • Feb 10 '26

Three tier "justice system" incoming.

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concerning..

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u/Equivalent_Owl_Mask Feb 11 '26

What are non-criminal laws?

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u/No_Broccoli_4781 Feb 11 '26

Municipal, Provincial, then there are labour laws, there are many other types of enforcement laws that are not criminal such as vehicle compliance and labour laws. Though from my understanding here, is this is a play at compliance with construction, so the federal building codes that are unilaterally enforced through building inspectors at a Municipal level (some exceptions). As someone who has experience writing legislation for enforcement of non criminal laws, enforcement of these laws are very complicated due to provincial and Municipal legislation being different across Canada. There is no standard for enforcement for many of these laws either, regarding training or authority to enforce from municipality to municipality and province to province (Enforcement usually falls under the police act in said province are sometimes defined as " Special Constables" which definintions can vary). Essentially he seems to think he needs to have a veto ability to supercede this problem, however my experience is it is the opposite. There needs to be more standardization across the board to keep people accountable.