The Specific Claims Tribunal, or SCT, is for First Nations to seek dispute resolution related to the fulfilment of historic treaties outside the court system. In a letter to the Chairperson of the SCT, the Aboriginal Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association offers its recommendations on how to make it more efficient and flexible. Below are the most salient ones.

Parents in shared parenting situations need to be treated equally by Canada’s tax laws, the Family Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association writes in a letter to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland.

Few people know the challenges of communicating with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada like lawyers whose job is to represent IRCC applicants. In a letter to IRCC, the Immigration Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association summarizes feedback provided by its members, “in the hope that they may assist IRCC in evaluating and improving its client communication mechanisms.”