But the Canadians take the cake. Silly country.
It may not be an entire country who is silly, when a pilot chooses to apply the MEL as it was written and approved. Extend that pilot the benefit of the doubt, maybe there was a TC inspector present, who knows?
Downloading required actions, resulting from an improperly conceived MEL, to the pilot, just before the flight, is not reasonable, and does not make the pilot (or a country) responsible for the resulting problem.
And, it might be an FAA approved MEL, rather than Canadian, I don't know the aircraft type.