A continuous false alarm stick shaker was one major distraction for the pilots throughout the two crash flights.
That's just dumb. The stick shaker is a hand massager if the pilots understand that the stall warning is false. If they think it is true then shutting it off is insane. Why would Transport Canada or any other agency think it's useful to disable the stick shaker? Disabling an audio alarm that might cover other alarms or communication in the cockpit makes sense, but not the shaker.
What makes little sense is Gate's confusing this with an EASA requirement - his previous article said the stick shaker cutout was an addition only from Transport Canada who wanted stick shaker circuit breaker training and maybe some tactile indicators of which breakers they are. What EASA wanted in that regard was a vaguely described solution to the general warning system problem.
Does anyone have information directly from EASA, et al, rather than through the Dominic filter?