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The Hon. Mr. Justice John R. Sproat

Bio:
The Honourable Mr. Justice John R. Sproat is a Justice of the Ontario Superior Court and a former partner at Miller, Thomson LLP in Toronto. He has also been a frequent lecturer at numerous conferences and continuing education programs presented by such organizations as the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Bar Association and the Canadian Institute. While in private practice, he was actively involved, not only in employment related litigation, but also in advising employers on preventative practices, policies and procedures that can be implemented to reduce exposure to wrongful dismissal actions and human rights and employment standards complaints. Mr. Justice Sproat is the author of The Employment Law Manual: Wrongful Dismissal, Human Rights and Employment Standards, also published by Carswell.

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In other words, a guy who can help you stomp on squealers or maybe not even squealers. Maybe just someone who's non-future is required to support the values of the company. Maybe as a scapegoat or something.

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"Ideally, job requirements should be communicated to the employee at the time of
hiring. In “The Wrongful Dismissal Handbook” John R. Sproat writes that employers
should use employment contracts that limit the period of notice as well as provide an
unconditional termination provision that sets out the level of competence required.15
Sproat argues that such an agreement, if communicated to the employee in its entirety at
the beginning of the relationship (before any oral agreement is entered into) and signed
by the employee, will likely be enforced by the courts and trump common law
entitlements."

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Can't say I have read his book, mind you.

But let's just say the incompetent-to-be employee signs the agreement. He might not know what's goin' on, man.

He might also be led astray thinking he was going to a religious camp.

And then you can nail him and he's goin' WTF, but his gig is up. He doesn't get it, and nobody who hasn't taken and MBA or advanced criminology doesn't either because it flies in the face of common decency and common sense but them's the breaks.

This issue should ignite rage but by comparison to everything else we see going on I guess we just throw it into the mix.

If they need to entrap, they should give up their own rights by admitting that their own rights are actually privileges and the rights of others are smokescreens.

If they see a need to kill, they should have to sleep with the bodies in their beds just to make sure that's what they really needed to do. They may find themselves reconsidering after a week or two.

If they see a need to starve people, they should go without food too. It would be a good test of necessity. They might suddenly find another way around a problem.

If they're willing to go down to the wire with those they seek to enlighten, it would be an iota of a reason to begin to believe them.

Here's Sproat's keen legal mind in action:

"[It was] submitted that this was not really a terrorist group because Ahmad’s conduct amounted to “musings and fantasies” that had no possibility of implementation. It occurred to me hearing this submission that it might well have been said prior to September 11, 2001 that a plan to kill thousands and destroy landmark buildings in lower Manhattan and Washington had no possibility of implementation."

http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2008/2008canlii51935/2008canlii5193...

The 'plot' was comically inept and thoroughly infiltrated - the movie 'Four Lions' sums it up much better than Sproat's gibberings.