When Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAiD, legislation was adopted by Parliament in March 2021, a Special Joint Committee was appointed to review the Criminal Code and its application to issues relating to mature minors, advance requests, mental illness, the state of palliative care in Canada and the protection of Canadians with disabilities.

The Municipal Law and Criminal Justice Sections of the Canadian Bar Association, in a letter to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, offer comments on the review of the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act.

The registration provisions of Canada’s Indian Act discriminate against women, writes the Aboriginal Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association in a letter to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women of the United Nations.

The President of the Canadian Bar Association, Stephen Rotstein, wrote to Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser, Justice Minister David Lametti and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to urge them to fulfill its promise to resettle 40,000 Afghan nationals in Canada, particularly those lawyers, judges and other individuals who share Canada’s commitment to justice, democracy and the rule of law

The President of the Canadian Bar Association, Stephen Rotstein, writes to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Immigration Minister Sean Fraser to urge them to take immediate action to bring vulnerable Ukrainians to Canada.

The Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Community Section, the Federal Courts Bench and Bar Liaison Committee and the Supreme Court of Canada Liaison Committee of the Canadian Bar Association have suggestions on how to make the Supreme Court of Canada and Federal Courts more welcoming of gender-diverse people.

A charity’s disbursement quota, or DQ, is the minimum amount of money it must spend each year on its charitable activities or gifts to qualified donees.

The Immigration Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association shares its priorities with three new ministers following the September 2021 federal election.

The situation is so dire for vulnerable Afghan nationals hoping to resettle to Canada as refugees that the government should use every legal mechanism at its disposal to help save their lives. That, in a nutshell, is the message sent to Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Sean Fraser by the Immigration Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association.