Acknowledgements

• Author: Christopher Waters
• Pages: 9-10

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Acknowledgements

This is the second edition of Every Cyclist’s Guide to Canadian Law.

The rst edition was written by Professors Craig Forcese and Nicole

LaViolette of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law. I readily and

gratefully acknowledge that I am building on the work of Craig

and Nicole (a wonderful human being, academic, and cyclist who

passed away, far too soon, in May 2015). While the law still does not

adequately protect cyclists, or do enough to promote active trans-

portation, there have been positive regulatory changes since 2014

when the rst edition was published. The main goal of the second

edition is simply to update the state of the law. Naturally, I have

also brought some of my own views on cycling and the law to the

project, reecting my experience commuting by bike and engaging

in cycling advocacy. Nonetheless, this second edition very much

“piggybacks” on the rst in structure, substance, and text, and I am

humbled by Craig’s trust in me to do the second edition. In pre-

paring this edition, I have also had the insights of Patrick Brown

(McLeish Orlando LLP), Lori Newton (Bike Windsor Essex), Anneke

Smit (Windsor Law), and Shanthi Senthe (Windsor Law). All views,

as well as any errors, are mine.

I also thank Je Miller, Lesley Steeve, and the team at Irw in

Law for their continued interest in the subject. As with the rst edi-

tion, all author royalties will go to the Share the Road Cycling Coali-

tion. Support for earlier research on bike law from the Canadian