Other Governmental Norms
Professor John Mark Keyes explains how governments in Canada, through their administrative authorities, can enact standards outside the legislative and regulatory process. These are referred to as administrative guidelines or interpretations that are issued by government authorities to support the exercise of powers granted to them by statute or regulation. These texts put in place by administrative authorities are frequently referred to as quasi-legislation, or soft law, whose legal status is different from that of laws and regulations.
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