General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours

[ijmorlan]

The salt thing seems to be increasing over time with private property. I assume commercial landlords would rather dump too much salt and avoid liability lawsuits. What a perverse incentive

Unfortunately I suspect you’re right.

The proper resolution is that something (not sure what) should be changed to make it almost impossible to win a slip-and-fall lawsuit related to winter weather conditions. Slippery conditions outdoors are a natural result of our weather, and there is a more-or-less foolproof workaround readily available in the market:

https://www.icers.ca

So if anybody slips outdoors, it’s their fault for not being properly prepared for Canadian weather. What next, a property owner being sued by the estate of somebody who froze to death because they didn’t have a coat?

Now if so little snow clearing is done that there is an accessibility problem, that’s another matter. But that’s a very different standard; the unreasonable goal of completely eliminating all ice is much more difficult to achieve than removing enough snow and ice that a wheelchair can be used.