Fall 2018 legal developments

The British Columbia Ministry of Finance has undertaken a review of the province’s Financial Institutions Act and Credit Union Incorporation Act to consider the regulatory framework governing the financial sector.

On March 2, 2018, Justice Hainey of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted an order appointing Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP as litigation investigator in the Sears Canada CCAA proceedings, for the purpose of investigating rights and claims that Sears Canada entities and/or any creditors of the Sears Canada entities may have against any parties.

On Jan. 1, 2017, the All Families are Equal Act came into force. The Act amends the definition of spouse under the Ontario Pension Benefits Act to reference the rules of parentage under the Children’s Law Reform Act.

March 2017 to August 2017

Calder v Alberta, 2017 ABQB 162

François Parent of Lavery provides an update of legal developments in the pensions and benefits sector in Québec.

Dante Manna of Stewart McKelvey provides an update of legal developments in the pensions and benefits sector in Atlantic Canada.

Heather Di Dio of Dentons provides an update of federal and multi-jurisdictional legal developments in the pensions and benefits sector.

In Skinner v Board of Trustees of the Canadian Elevator Industry Welfare Trust Fund, 2017 CanLII 3240, the Nova Scotia Human Rights Board of Inquiry had to determine whether the Board of Trustees of his employee benefits fund violated Mr. Skinner's rights under Nova Scotia's Human Rights Act when it denied coverage for medical marijuana.