The way it's wired the ground is the common wire with neutrals as travellers.
From an electrical theory point of view this works (ground and neutral are bonded in the panel).
But in practice the main issue with this is that a person shuts off the light to work in the light fixture box and possibly get a shock (if the box is grounded from another wire, or from a metal object like a duct or copper pipe the person may be touching). That's why we don't switch neutrals.
Many moons ago I was an electrical contractor in the Toronto area, one man in a van kinda thing. I've seen lots of this work in houses and small commercial buildings. My first thought when seeing this picture was- "new Canadian" renovation contractor.
The saddest part to me is, we've had youtube for how long now? And Google. It would take all of 5 minutes on youtube to get shown the proper way to do this.
Zero Facs given by this guy....
Thanks for posting this, it's a good departure from rants about Trudeau or whatever else!
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