By-Laws are Useless

And here is the evidence.

The owner of a downtown Winnipeg bathhouse where a fire killed two people in October pleaded guilty and was fined for fire code violations on Thursday.

Somchai Pengpharsuks, who owns the Aquarius Bath House on Notre Dame Avenue, pleaded guilty in provincial court to violating 15 city fire bylaws and was fined $11,000.

His plea came with an explanation that he didn't know about many of the regulations. He said others were minor.

Pengpharsuks previously told CBC News that the bathhouse complied with all fire regulations, but the city countered by saying they last inspected the business when it opened in 2001.

The by-laws were in place, but since laws are just words on paper they can't actually do anything. The city hadn't inspected since 2001, over 8 years! How much will the fire inspectors be fined for not doing their jobs in enforcing this by-law? What will be their punishment? The answer is nothing, because they are unaccountable bureaucrats and you are forced to pay them whether you are satisfied with their services or not.