You don’t have to ask us twice: invited by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada to suggest improvements to Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation, several CBA Sections were happy to weigh in.

The Supreme Court of Canada dealt a decisive blow to victim fine surcharges in December, ruling in R v Boudreault that the current surcharge regime is unconstitutional and amounted to “cruel and unusual punishment” of impecunious offenders.

The CBA’s Anti-Corruption Team has 18 recommendations to make on the federal government’s draft revised Ineligibility and Suspension Policy for public works contractors. But its first comment may be its most important: that a one-month consultation period didn’t give stakeholders nearly enough time to study and comment on the policy, which is set to be finalized in early 2019.