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Originally Posted by James H

Whatever the arguments maybe in principle, the reality is that legal action is expensive. The city has a whole department of lawyers on staff. You will have to pay for your lawyer for each minute. And the bills will soon add up to hundreds of thousands because this is not a simple case. There will be appealed all the way up the higher courts. You can represent yourself but how many days can you take off from work? And i dont' believe you can represent yourself in higher courts. Toronto city council has shown themselves to be tenacious when it comes to legal battles. Hell, they are taking the province all the way up to the supreme court so they wont give up easily. Again it comes down to $$$. By the time you are done, assuming you win, you could have use all that wasted money to buy a Porsche with an OEM lould exhaust. Going to court battles for matter of principle is a luxury for billionaires.