February

Following up on a promise made during last fall’s election campaign, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has instructed the ministers of Small Business and Finance Bill Morneau to work together to ensure the small business tax rate is used to support small businesses.

In an appearance before the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on Feb. 16, 2016, the CBA’s Criminal Justice Section welcomed the opportunity to offer its expertise regarding delays in the criminal justice system.

Join us at the Westin Calgary in Calgary, April 3-5, 2016 for our National Conference, the largest gathering of in-house counsel in Canada.

You won’t want to miss the Competition Law Section’s Spring Forum, which will focus on international perspectives on competition law compliance. As well, the Canadian Competition Law Review has put out a call for papers for its fall edition, and don’t forget to go online for your copy of Fundamentals of Canadian Competition Law.

A number of the resolutions passed by CBA Council at the Mid-Winter meeting in Ottawa in February are of interest to lawyers working in the business and corporate field.

The President of the Canadian Bar Association, Janet Fuhrer of Ottawa, will visit CBA-Yukon (CBA-Y) in Whitehorse from Feb.24 to 26, where she will speak to lawyers about improving access to justice issues, particularly as they affect Indigenous people.

Mark L. Berlin, Professor of Practice at McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development, is the winner of the CBA's 2016 Douglas Miller Award.

Find out what resolutions were passed at the CBA Mid-Winter Meeting of Council.

Michèle Moreau of Montreal acclaimed incoming Second Vice President.

The 2016 Lenczner Slaght/Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Gale Cup Moot, one of Canada’s most prestigious bilingual law school mooting competitions, takes place February 19-20 at Osgoode Hall in Toronto, with 20 law schools from across Canada participating.