CBA Influence - Public Policy and Advocacy

Are search engines engaged in commercial activity? Is it practical to require them to obtain consent before gathering personal data? Is it appropriate to ask them to decide what information needs to be removed from their indexes?

Google “mergers” and “efficiencies” and the helpful suggestion for a search that comes up is “mergers create efficiencies.” It’s apparently so true that even Google knows it.

In a letter to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, the CBA’s Privacy and Access Law Section and CCCA note that many of the problems it identified last year in the OPC’s draft guidelines for obtaining meaningful online consent were still present after those guidelines were revised.

The Supreme Court has been very clear in successive decisions about the need to protect solicitor-client privilege, and that any government wishing to abrogate it, set it aside or infringe must demonstrate a clear and unambiguous legislative intent to do so.

As far as the CBA’s Immigration Law Section is concerned, there’s a lot to be happy with in the 2018 federal budget.

CBA’s National Pensions and Benefits Law Section took part in a recent consultation on the Pension Commission of Manitoba’s review of The Pension Benefits Act, responding to questions contained in a consultation paper issued in January.

It’s time for tax law to join the 21st century when it comes to family breakdowns.

In a legal environment where most cases settle before they ever reach trial, being able to facilitate the reaching of those settlements is a valuable skill.

What can have 12 members, normally has six and currently has, effectively, three?

Setting strict schedules is all well and good, but a little flexibility is important when all doesn’t go according to plan.