Almost two years after his appearance before a Parliamentary committee arguing on the CBA’s behalf against the passage of the Conservatives’ controversial Bill C-51, Peter Edelmann returned to Ottawa at the beginning of February to present the CBA’s submission on the Liberals’ Bill C-59.

The Canada Revenue Agency’s interpretation bulletin IT-160R3 was literally its last word in how to calculate the taxable benefit of personal use of business aircraft.

Bill C-58, An Act to amend the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act, is a disproportionate response to a problem that doesn’t exist, the CBA said in a December letter to Treasury Board President Scott Brison and Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould.

The legislation to legalize cannabis in Canada comes hand in hand with proposed amendments to other laws and regulations, including the offences that could lead to inadmissibility under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations.

It’s not about you.

Many of the parents of the current generation of babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers were themselves children – or even just a twinkle in a parent’s eye – the last time the Divorce Act was substantively amended, more than 30 years ago.

The CBA’s Immigration Law Section has said it quite a few times over the past several years, and said it again in a December letter to the Immigration Minister: lawyers are best placed to offer professional representation for newcomers to Canada.

Consent is a weighted word these days, and people in many sectors are trying to decide when it’s necessary, how it must be given and how it can be recognized.

The CBA appeared in December before the Senate Security and National Defence Committee to reiterate its concerns with Bill C-23, Preclearance Act 2016.

A number of CBA Sections responded to the government’s consultation this fall on expanding Canada’s toolkit to address corporate wrongdoing – specifically, enhancements to the Integrity Regime and a possible deferred prosecution agreement regime.