CBA Influence - Public Policy and Advocacy

Officials at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada have made a lot of improvements to the spousal sponsorship process in recent years, but problems remain, particularly in the area of the timeliness of approvals for work permits.

The headlines out of Tanzania tell the story of dangerous and deadly times for the country’s LGBTI+ community, as many gay men are in hiding from vigilante squads on a mission to find and arrest them.

The new process developed in 2016 to increase transparency in judicial appointments and diversity on the bench brought with it a brand new questionnaire that was more than double the length of the previous one.

Labour Market Impact Assessments are a fact of life for companies bringing temporary foreign workers into Canada. The rules are written so that companies have to make every effort to hire locally – including specific advertising requirements – before a foreign worker can step into the job.

Securitatem, sustineri, concordia – if the CBA Pension and Benefits Section had a motto, this would be it: financial security, sustainability, harmony.

Every year the federal government asks Canadians what its priorities should be in the next budget.

What do you do with pension benefits when you can’t find the plan member?

Consistency in regulations and harmonized approach across jurisdictions are important factors for the Cooperative Capital Markets Regulatory System, the CBA’s Business Law Section says.

Ahead of the August Equal Rights Coalition Global Conference on LGBTI Human Rights and Inclusive Development, the CBA’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Community wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to urge his government to demonstrate Canada’s leadership in this field.

This spring the federal Competition Bureau released a bulletin to “describe how market studies are used to promote competition, and to provide transparency to stakeholders regarding how the Bureau selects and conducts market studies.”