CBA Influence - Public Policy and Advocacy

Few things matter more to the law than consistency in its interpretation and predictability in its application. Both are essential to ensure immigration applicants are in a position to comply, and to help legal representatives advise their clients properly.

The Family Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association wrote to Justice Minister David Lametti to express its continued support for the expansion of Unified Family Courts, or UFCs, across the country.

Three Sections of the Canadian Bar Association, in a letter to Justice Minister David Lametti, express their support for a strong and independent commission to rectify wrongful convictions and offer further comments on a select number of recommendations from the LaForme/Westmoreland-Traoré report on the proposed creation of a Miscarriage of Justice Commission.

On January 1, 2023, the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadian Act came into force.

The Canadian Bar Association has serious concerns that proposed Income Tax Act amendments included in Bill C-32 and other draft legislation compromise solicitor-client privilege.

The Immigration Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association, in a letter to the deputy minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, suggests improvements to program delivery regarding temporary foreign workers, in the context of the International Mobility Program, or IMP.

The federal government can be commended for its commitment to implement the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, or ICERD, but there could be improvements in its reporting.

Canadian values are contrary to capital punishment, writes CBA President Steeves Bujold in a letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth Marci Ien.

The Canadian Bar Association, in a letter from President Steeves Bujold to the Honourable Richard Wagner, Chief Justice of Canada, is cheering the Court’s September sitting in Quebec City.

Canadian charities wishing to operate in Afghanistan have to be able to navigate Canada’s anti-terrorism financing legislation.