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Political parties must meet basic privacy standards for personal data

  • December 05, 2018

If hacktivists decide to go after political parties in next year’s federal election (and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment is pretty sure they will) the personal information about the voting public that those parties hold could be up for grabs – and no party would be obliged to report the breach.

C-86: Trademark, copyright amendments need work

  • December 04, 2018

Bill C-86, the omnibus Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2, is an important piece of legislation making speedy progress through Parliament despite its size and many varied component parts.

Unilingual constitution in a bilingual country makes for bad optics

  • November 27, 2018

Words matter. When it comes to the Constitution – the document which guarantees the equality of English and French – the fact that the majority of constitutional documents are available in English only makes it look like the words are more equal in one language than the other.

Proposed workplace harassment regulations put burden on the victim

  • October 24, 2018

If the #MeToo movement has done nothing else, it has started a conversation about how difficult it can be for victims of abuse and harassment to come forward. When the abuse and harassment are happening in the workplace, there can be additional obstacles for victims – regardless of gender – to overcome.

Omnibus Bill C-75 attracts wide-ranging response

  • September 25, 2018

As is perhaps fitting for omnibus legislation, the CBA Criminal Justice Section’s response to Bill C-75 ranges from “Absolutely!” to “Absolutely not!” and hits “yes,” “no,” and “maybe, if” a number of times in between.