I've never denied there's any responsibility with respect to agreeing or assenting to terms in a contract. That's never been my position. Interestingly, the courts in Canada took your position on this in another case we haven't talked about yet, a case called Kanitz v. Rogers Cable Inc. It had to do with Rogers wanting to change some of the terms of its agreement after the contract had already been made with its particular customers. The question was whether or not it could do so after the fact and have that still be part of the contract. Part of what the decision ultimately said was it was up to individuals to go and check Rogers' website to be able to know about the updated terms, and if they agreed to them and whatnot.
If you were to assign your legislative assistant or whoever helps you to be the babysitter of every standard form contract you've entered into this month alone, you wouldn't get a lot of help on any other things if you had to adopt that kind of approach across the board, given how automated these things are. Also, as you said previously, you didn't even know you signed that one.
The responsibility flows both ways. While you're right to point out that the consumer has responsibility in these matters, at the end of the day, if these automated contracts work in the direction of the one party who gets the opportunity to write them, that will be just as harmful to the small guy, whether it's a small business or an irresponsible consumer, in your view.