The purpose of a definition is to define. The purpose of a clarification is to clarify. According to CBA’s Commodity Tax, Customs and Trade Section, draft amendments to the Excise Tax Act do neither, and in fact create uncertainty.

Protecting the integrity of the health-care system is an important factor to consider in Canada’s immigration program, but the focus can’t be on keeping applicants with medical conditions out, says the CBA’s Immigration Law Section.

In a perfect world, no one would need a law to make them pay their bills on time.

Changes to the Criminal Code’s sexual assault regime in Bill C-51 threaten to upset the ability of an accused to provide a full defence, suggests the CBA’s Criminal Justice Section.

There’s more wrong with Canada’s Anti-Spam Law than can be dealt with in a three-page submission. So it is problematic that the House of Commons Committee on Industry, Science and Technology has limited the statutory review of the law in both time and space, three CBA Sections say in their submission.

When quasi-constitutional legislation interferes with a quasi-constitutional right, things are likely to get entirely messy.