![]() Insofar as he has a personality, it will often be vain and catty, or even cowardly. Even though (compared to heterosexual men) he will rarely be shown having sex, he talks about it every second of the day, and if he isn't, he will be talking about clothes, or complaining about his terrible friends. The stereotype, like many, still survives because for some fraction of the population, this is in fact Truth in Television, if still greatly exaggerated by media. ![]() This can result in Unfortunate Implications, as it can imply that gay men are a monolith. Even media produced by gay creators will sometimes take potshots at these characters, for the crime of " making the rest of us look bad." Unlike Straight Gay characters, Camp Gays usually show in media as caricatures or one-off jokes (see Monty Python's Flying Circus for a few examples) because they're still often seen as Acceptable Targets. In the context of an ongoing investigation of the embattled engineering firm, SNC-Lavalin, Québec’s securities regulator compelled an executive to produce certain documents.More positive portrayals of this character type will sometimes be portrayed as the Only Sane Man among a group of dysfunctional (and usually straight) characters-expect this variant to have flamboyancy as his only quirk and often sass or snark his less well-adjusted peers when they get crazy. In the same letter, however, the regulator purported to prevent the executive from telling anyone else about the documents (apart from the company’s lawyers). ![]() Revealing the existence of an ongoing investigation was permitted, but not any details of the requested documents.Īfter some back and forth, the prohibition on disclosure was modified somewhat, so as to allow the company to comply with the request. However, the company was forbidden from communicating the details of the requested documents to its auditors. The auditors cried foul, arguing that they could not sign off on the company’s books without knowing the details of the investigation, which they could piece together once they had identified the requested documents. On (internal) appeal to the Bureau de décision et révision, the company won, and the auditors had the necessary information (almost) at their fingertips, at which point the regulator too cried foul and appealed to the ordinary courts. The saga came to an end yesterday (barring the granting of leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada), with defeat for the regulator in Autorité des marchés financiers c. Interestingly, the decision did not turn on the legality of the prohibition on disclosure as such. Section 245 of the Québec Securities Actgives it the power to impose confidentiality obligations in the context of an investigation. Rather, the substantive issue was whether the Bureau had the authority to modify the prohibition. If not, the executive should have sought judicial review in the ordinary courts (which would, at the very least, have applied a standard of review much more congenial to the regulator). 322 of the Act, which gives the Bureau the jurisdiction to review any “decision rendered by the ”. ![]() One might think, as the regulator argued, that “decision” means a final decision reached after investigation, consideration of the evidence, representations of the parties and adjudication.
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