Submissions and Resolutions

TheCBA comments on proposals to modernize the IP agent community, including governance models, a disciplinary process, and overlapping regimes for lawyer agents.

The Canadian Bar Association urges Canada to place the rule of law at the centre of international assistance, increase collaboration with civil society organizations (including bar associations) and engage young lawyers.

CBA supports proposed changes to FLSC Model Code of Professional Conduct on competence, dishonesty, leaving a law firm, and incriminating physical evidence.

The CBA comments on parts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Chapter 12 (Temporary Entry for Business Persons) and Chapter 26 (Transparency and Anti-Corruption).

The Canadian Bar Association recommends the rule of law as a cross-cutting theme in Canada's international development assistance, as an enabling framework to implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The CBA commits to advancing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action and welcomes greater collaboration with the federal government to achieve these goals.

The Canadian Bar Association supports the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action of June 2015 and urges others to do the same. Many of the calls are consistent with CBA policy, and work has already begun on those issues.

The CBA comments on entity regulation to the Federation of Law Societies and encourages the law societies to harmonize any new regulations between jurisdictions

A Canadian Bar Association resolution passed at the 2016 Mid-Winter Meeting of Council.

The CBA urges the federal government to reconsider amendments to the use provisions of the Trade-marks Act.