On June 6, 2025 the federal government tabled Bill C-5, the One Canadian Economy Act, carrying out Prime Minister Carney’s election commitment to provide “one-window” regulatory decisions through a newly established Federal...more
7/3/2025
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) is pausing its work on climate-related and diversity-related disclosure rules in order “to support Canadian markets and issuers as they adapt to the recent developments in the U.S....more
On October 13, 2023, in a 5-2 split decision, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) found the federal Impact Assessment Act (IAA) to be, in part, unconstitutional in Reference re Impact Assessment Act. The SCC determined that the...more
10/18/2023
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