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Lots of things are going viral these days. Including typos. This morning in the "NP" (National Post) section of the Ottawa Citizen, I noticed a headline "Jailing deportees for a long period is constitutional." In the body of the paragraph was a quote from the presiding judge, Justice Donald Rennie, on this Appeals Court case: "prolonged dentition is constitutional"

Yup, I'm sympathetic, all right. I've had endless problems with crowded teeth! Wisdom teeth in particular can be quite problematic - I had to have mine extracted, as did my daughter. Flimsy orthodontic appliances that can't take the abuse we dish out to them can also pose problems.

The funny thing is that when I looked online, I found the same article there, this one apparently appearing in the Toronto Sun:

https://torontosun.com/news/national/jailing-deportees-for-a-long-period-is-constitutional-appeals-court

Is this indeed The Case of the Learned Judge Who Mis-spoke Himself? Or is it something a little more prosaic, like an editorial or auto-corrective mis-step? And how does the plight of deportees compare with those in self-isolation or quarantine?

Yes, I'm sure that prolonged dentition IS constitutional. But is it a law with any teeth in it?