It’s just as unsafe to send people back to their home countries now as it was in March, 2020 when the federal government put a temporary hold on removals, says the CBA’s Immigration Law Section, which is concerned that they have started up again.

Draft regulatory amendments from the Canada Border Services Agency relating to transborder criminal inadmissibility have the potential to undermine legal and procedural safeguards, the CBA’s Immigration Law Section says in a letter responding the proposed amendments.

Litigants in criminal matters and parties to divorce both have a right to hearings in either of Canada’s official languages. It’s only fair that people should have the right to declare bankruptcy – or faillite – in the language of their choice as well, says the CBA’s French-Speaking Common Law Members Section.

Truck drivers can keep on trucking across the Canada-U.S. border as a general rule, without issue. But other business travellers, like IT professionals in jobs that didn’t exist when the North America Free Trade Agreement was signed, might have a problem.