On December 21, 2017, in the matter of Neumann v. Collège des médecins du Québec, the Quebec Superior Court rendered an interesting decision regarding the power of the executive committee of a professional order to require one of its members to take a period of refresher training.
The facts underlying this instance of judicial review are relatively straightforward.
In its decision in Quigley v. Placements Banque Nationale Inc. et al. rendered on January 15, 2018, the Quebec Court of Appeal upheld a judgment by Quebec Superior Court Justice Louis Gouin dismissing the action of the plaintiffs, former employees of Gestion de portefeuille Natcan Inc. (“Natcan”), brought pursuant to sections 450 to 453 of Quebec’s Business Corporations Act (the “QBCA”).
On March 19, 2018 Health Canada published a document entitled “Proposed Approach to the Regulation of Cannabis: Summary of Comments Received During the Public Consultation”. The document briefly reviews the approaches proposed by Health Canada in November 2017, and summarizes the comments received by stakeholder communities most directly affected by the proposed regulations. More importantly, in this publication Health Canada confirms several regulatory approaches and specifies the scope of the regulatory framework in greater detail.
Since 2003, the Act respecting labour standards (the “Act”) has undergone very few amendments. On the whole, employers’ obligations and the rights of employees have hardly changed. Over the last several months however, the Liberal government has intimated that a reform of the Act was imminent. Finally, yesterday afternoon the government tabled Bill 176, entitled An Act to amend the Act respecting Labour Standards and other legislative provisions mainly to facilitate family-work balance (the “Bill”).
Since the arrival of social media, publicly expressing an opinion has taken on a whole new dimension. The potential audience for online expressions of an opinion is vast, and companies are now paying close attention to comments published about them online. In some cases, the popular verdict can be devastating.
Is the Decision in Valard Construction Ltd v. Bird Construction Co. Really Revolutionary in Quebec?
The Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled on the obligation, whose existence and degree of intensity vary according to the circumstances, to disclose the existence of a surety bond for construction wages and materials to potential beneficiaries, pursuant to general principles of Common Law trusts and equity that do not apply, or at least not in the same way, in Quebec.
After analyzing the decision, we will review the state of the law in Quebec in this regard.