The RCR jump ban story: how decisions are made

As many of you already know, Resorts of the Canadians Rockies (RCR), decided to ban jumps from ALL their resorts. RCR controls many important resorts such as Lake Louise, Stoneham and MSA. It really sucks for those who were riding those parks. You can sign the petition Here even tho I doubt it is gonna change anything. What should make a difference is boycotting their ski hill, they still offer a 22ft half pipe and rails, but still try to avoid Stoneham and Ste-Anne. this is the only way to have them reverse their decision

We, the Shred B guys are scared that this non-sense might be spread to all the ski hills in Canada, especially in Quebec through ASSQ. I did a little search on the subject, calling and e-mailing people.

The ASSQ is the organisation (non profitable) who is representing 90% of the ski hills in Quebec. Last year, they are the one who were held responsible by the Quebec riders for the mandatory helmet but this isn't the complete reality. The decision process is much longer and involves much more people than we first thought it did. The ASSQ can't be held entirely responsible for the helmet being mandatory in Quebec's terrain parks. The ASSQ has to respond to the legislative body present in Canada and Quebec. This means that if a law is passed by the governement to, let's say, ban snowboard that are shorter than 2 meters, they have to follow through and "force" their members to apply the rule. So what happened for the helmet all started when a rider killed himself on a jump at Mont Joye, three years later, the attorney decided that helmet should be mandatory and asked the doctors organisation (College des Médecins du Québec) for other recommendations. The latters required a maximum lenght for jumps of 12 feet!!! The ASSQ said that they couldn't reduce jump to such a small size and then end up agreeing on 18 feet (which happily, isn't respected by any resort!).

Hence, I doubt that the jump ban will spread to other ski hills before a huge law suit or some other stoner kid dies on one of them.
(Thanks to Emmanuel, Operations Manager at ski Mont Saint-Bruno for answering my questions)