Cabinet shuffled: Welcoming the new ministers February 23, 2017 A little more than a year after naming his first cabinet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a shuffle in January, in preparation for a new world order taking hold south of the border with the inauguration of President Donald Trump. The CBA wrote letters to welcome some of the new ministers.
Clarity and consistency: What IRCC needs for client service delivery February 23, 2017 Not for the first time, the CBA’s National Immigration Law Section is asking Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada for clarity and consistency. This time, the request was in a submission to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration’s study on the modernization of client service delivery.
Protecting the non-default position on gender identity November 28, 2016 If the world was made for people like you, you might have a hard time understanding the problems people who are not like you have manoeuvring through its sometimes rocky passages. There are ways to make life easier for them, though – which is why the Nunavut branch and SOGIC have asked that the Nunavut government include protections for gender identity and gender expression in the province’s Human Rights Act.
Seeking clemency: It’s time to let Leonard Peltier go November 14, 2016 In August, about the same time that Kathy Peltier was waiting anxiously to hear whether President Barack Obama had added her father’s name to the list of pardons in his last year in office, CBA Council passed a resolution to add its voice to the chorus of those pleading for clemency for a man who has spent 40 years in prison after being convicted on fraudulent evidence.
Initiative proved its worth for families in marital breakdown November 02, 2016 Its name doesn’t trip off the tongue and its abbreviation is no catchy acronym, but the Supporting Families Experiencing Separation and Divorce Initiative has been a boon to families in marital breakdown.
Let the children go: The detention of immigrants is hard on the kids October 04, 2016 Children don’t belong in detention. That’s the message the CBA along with nearly 40 other signatories sent to the government in an open Statement Against the Immigration Detention of Children, published on Tuesday.
New SCC appointment process: Could you be a contender? August 04, 2016 Are you a Canadian lawyer or judge with a superior knowledge of the law, excellent analytical skills, an aptitude for resolving complex legal problems and a functional-or-better grasp of both official languages?
Judicial appointments June 29, 2016 On June 17, the federal government appointed a total of 15 judges to courts in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, as well as to the Federal Court of Appeal. CBA President Janet Fuhrer says that’s a good start.
Making the rule of law count in international assistance June 24, 2016 The federal government is currently reviewing its international assistance framework. CBA International Initiatives has written to the committee conducting the review asking that it make the rule of law a priority theme cutting across all of Canada’s development assistance.
ETAs – not your travel visa ‘lite’ February 24, 2016 Electronic Travel Authorization is advertised as a quick questionnaire for people visiting Canada from countries where they don’t require a visa to travel here. But it turns out that those “basic questions” they’re asked to answer are a lot more intrusive than those posed for visa purposes, and the CBA’s Immigration Section wants to know why.