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No, they should stay the way they are. The cutesy names always betray the real intent behind the legislation.

Canada makes it harder to see through the bullshit.

Sometimes. Other times the cutesy name is used to conceal the intent, like the PATRIOT act.

That was the point I was trying to make-- whatever the name is, assume the intent is the opposite because it's political suicide to be on record decrying the ENDRACISM or CAREBEAR acts. It's statecraft, and obvious to anybody with a brain.

Naming everything "HB-4739-2B" would make the process more opaque, so only those directly involved have any clue what's going on.

Mmm, but a signal is a signal, even if it's a duplicitous one.

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