À la suite de la publication du rapport initial de la Commission sur l’ingérence étrangère le 3 mai 2024, le ministre de la Sécurité publique du Canada a déposé le projet de loi C-70, Loi concernant la lutte contre...more
Following the release of the Foreign Interference Commission’s Initial Report on May 3, 2024, Canada’s Minister of Public Safety has tabled Bill C-70, the Countering Foreign Interference Act (Bill). The Bill would create a...more
Le 20 mars 2024, le ministre de la Sécurité publique, des Institutions démocratiques et des Affaires intergouvernementales a présenté le projet de loi C-65, Loi modifiant la Loi électorale du Canada (le « projet de loi ») à...more
On March 20, 2024, the Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs tabled Bill C-65: An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (Bill) in the House of Commons. The Bill’s proposed amendments...more
Dans l’affaire Democracy Watch v. Attorney general of Canada (l’« affaire Démocratie en surveillance »), la Cour fédérale (la « Cour ») a conclu que la commissaire au lobbying du Canada (la « commissaire ») avait agi de façon...more
In Democracy Watch Canada v. Attorney General of Canada (Democracy Watch), the Federal Court (Court) held that the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada (Commissioner) acted reasonably in finding that two former employees of...more
Toronto’s mayoral by-election officially started last week, with an election day of June 26, 2023. With over two dozen candidates vying to be elected mayor of Canada’s largest city, many voters will be looking to do more than...more
Le 10 mars 2023, le ministre fédéral de la Sécurité publique, l’honorable Marco Mendicino, a annoncé le lancement par le gouvernement fédéral d’une consultation publique sur la création d’un registre visant la transparence en...more
On March 10, 2023, Canada’s Minister of Public Safety, the Honourable Marco Mendicino, announced the federal government’s launch of a public consultation on the creation of a Foreign Influence Transparency Registry in Canada...more
Le 6 mars 2023, la Cour d’appel de l’Ontario (la « CAO ») a publié les motifs de sa décision dans l’affaire Working Families Coalition (Canada) Inc. v. Ontario (Attorney General). Les juges majoritaires de la CAO ont invalidé...more
On March 6, 2023, the Court of Appeal for Ontario (Court) released its reasons in Working Families Coalition (Canada) Inc. v. Ontario (Attorney General). A majority of the Court struck down the Ontario government’s spending...more
La Loi sur l’accès à l’information (la « LAI ») (Canada) donne aux personnes physiques et morales présentes au Canada le droit d’accéder aux documents relevant de 265 institutions fédérales. Cet accès est toutefois assujetti...more
Canada’s federal Access to Information Act (ATIA) provides individuals and corporations present in Canada with a right to access records under the control of 265 government institutions. However, that access is subject to a...more
As Ontarians prepare to head to the polls on June 2, 2022, businesses and organizations who engage or are planning to engage in the political process should be mindful of Ontario’s Election Finances Act (EFA) and the rigorous...more
On June 8, 2021, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down recent amendments to Ontario’s Election Finances Act, RSO 1990, c E7 (EFA) that restricted third party spending on political advertising and related...more
Ontario’s 2022 election may be run under significantly different financial rules than the previous one. On February 25th, 2021, Attorney General Doug Downey introduced Bill 254, the Protecting Ontario Elections Act, 2021,...more
Le 20 octobre 2020, l’Ontario a déposé le projet de loi 218, intitulé Loi de 2020 visant à soutenir la relance en Ontario et sur les élections municipales, lequel, s’il est adopté, empêchera que des poursuites relatives à des...more
On October 20, 2020, Ontario introduced Bill 218, Supporting Ontario's Recovery and Municipal Elections Act, 2020 that, if passed, will prevent lawsuits relating to COVID-19 infections or exposure from being brought against...more
On March 6, 2018, the Federal Court of Appeal (Court) released its reasons in Iggillis Holdings Inc. v. Canada (National Revenue) confirming common interest privilege as a valid exception to waiver in non-litigious...more
Recently, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) released an important draft Position on Online Reputation (paper). The paper takes the position that current federal privacy legislation, the Personal...more