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That's downright amazing. I can't imagine it would be physically possible to read aloud all US bills passed in a year that many times. My impression is that s
by jackpirate 14y ago
That's downright amazing. I can't imagine it would be physically possible to read aloud all US bills passed in a year that many times. My impression is that some bills are upwards of a thousand pages.
I would be really interested in comparing the average length of Canadian legislation with American legislation.
- a-priori 14y agoI have no ideas about the average length, but I'd guess a normal length would about 10-15 pages. You can check out recent bills passed here if you're interested: http://openparliament.ca/bills/ http://openparliament.ca/bills/ (Hat tip to openparliament.ca, it's an awesome site) In fact, our current government got in trouble in the last few years for passing two very large omnibus bills, C-10 (the "Safe Streets and Communities Act", which makes many changes to the criminal code) and C-45 (the "Jobs and Growth Act", which makes many fiscal changes, among other things). http://openparliament.ca/bills/41-1/C-10/ http://openparliament.ca/bills/41-1/C-10/ http://openparliament.ca/bills/41-1/C-45/ http://openparliament.ca/bills/41-1/C-45/ They weigh in at 114 pages and 430 pages, respectively, in their normal two-column (English & French) layout. These are not typical and they caused a lot of commotion in the media and from the opposition when the government tabled them, mostly because of their lengths but also because of the limited amount of debate that was allowed about them.