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On May 10, 2018 Canada’s highest court rendered the following two decisions: Quebec (Attorney General) v. Alliance du personnel professionnel et technique de la santé et des services sociaux, 2018 SCC 17 (hereinafter, “APPTSSS”) and Centrale des syndicats du Québec v. Quebec (Attorney General), 2018 SCC 18 (hereinafter, “CSQ”).

Mandatory interlocutory injunctions are orders that force a party to take positive action prior to trial. When granted, they can drastically alter the course of ongoing litigation.

Bill C-45, An Act respecting cannabis and to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Criminal Code and other Acts, was approved by the Senate on June 7, 2018 by a vote of 56 to 30, with one abstention.

On May 17, 2018 the Quebec Court of Appeal rendered an important decision on the enforcement of real security and on prescription (limitation of actions).

On October 9, 2013, the Administrative Tribunal of Québec (Immovable Property Section) (the “Tribunal”) rendered a decision concerning the inclusion on the property assessment role of the City of Montreal (the “City”) of certain equipment used in the operation of a data center, specifically the computer servers housed in the building where the center operates.

This article originally appeared on The Lawyer’s Daily website published by LexisNexis Canada Inc. on May 7, 2018.
On June 18, 2015, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) was amended to impose data breach reporting requirements. On April 18, 2018, the federal government released the Breach of Security Safeguards Regulations (The “Regulation”), which set forth the rules and requirements applicable in the event of a breach of security safeguards affecting personal information. The Regulation will come into effect on November 1, 2018, at the same time as the statutory requirements pertaining to data breach reporting.