Gordon Knight on The Steve Hook Show - 7 March 2023

GUEST OVERVIEW: Gordon Knight, author of Deep 6 Diaries, is the owner of PS Knight, a publisher of electrical guidebooks. For more than 50 years Knight’s family business has been publishing such guidebooks on how to install electrical wiring safely and in compliance with electrical laws. But Knight has a competitor — the Canadian government, which also publishes its own guidebooks. In 2012 the Canadian government began suing Knight, arguing that Knight had breached their copyright in quoting from laws that the civil service had drafted. That is, they argued that they owned the law privately. Since then Knight has endured a series of dirty Rulings from several levels of Court. In one such Ruling, the Judge was concurrently employed by the same civil service entity that was suing us. As one might expect, this Judge ruled in favour of his employer. Right now, after nine years of litigation and a run all the way to the Supreme Court, in order to protect the private interests of the civil service, the Courts of Canada have Ruled that laws are indeed privately owned by whomever drafted or lobbied for their passage into law. Gordon Knight has fled Canada.