Sunfish you are a gem of clear thinking on this.
for if there is no aviation how can one prove that the prohibited operation was actually safe?
the canadian owner maintainers have set the precedent here.
you carry out the activity illegally.
you carry it out safely.
you refuse to stop carrying it out.
you refuse, in the actual interests of safe operation, to ever do it in the manner they (CAsA) prescribe.
eventually the system carries out a safety case study to try to stamp it out and proves conclusively that it isn't dangerous at all.
then the law gets changed.
The first sign of incompetence is charisma, is worth remembering here. The charismatic man does not listen and consequently never learns.
until CAsA learns to not be charismatic and starts to learn we will just continue to ignore them and fly illegally.
as discussions in another thread have shown their accident rate was astounding for people who claim to be "experts in aviation".