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December 22nd, 2021

Quebec’s 2022 Immigration Plan: Welcome flexibility for employers in the manufacturing sector

This article first appeared in French in the December 2021 issue of the Journal des Parcs industriels of the Corporation des parcs industriels du Québec (the Quebec Industrial Parks Corporation). The pandemic has not made recruiting either local or international workers easy for companies in the region.1 Many employers who initially relied on temporary foreign workers to […]

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December 21st, 2021

From idea to reality: Planning a construction project from a legal perspective

This article was first published on Propulsion website, November 2021. We have all, at one time or another, witnessed the poor execution of a great idea. The first film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s masterpiece Dune, by David Lynch in 1984, is a prime example of this phenomenon—but the same thing can happen with construction projects. […]

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December 15th, 2021

The Supreme Court of Canada rules to limit the powers of a copyright collective

In a decision handed down on July 30, 2021 (2021 SCC 32), the Supreme Court ruled on a dispute between a copyright collective and York University over royalties owed by the latter for the use of educational materials.

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December 15th, 2021

Quebec returns to remote work to combat the Omicron variant: what employers need to know

At a press conference on December 14, 2021, the Minister of Health and Social Services, Christian Dubé, announced new public health guidelines in response to the rise in COVID-19 cases in Quebec and the arrival of the Omicron variant—a variant two to three times more contagious than the earlier Delta variant— in Ontario. Among other […]

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December 14th, 2021

Overview of the recent decision involving Gaspé Énergies

In a voluminous 87-page decision, the Court of Quebec recently overturned a review decision by the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources (hereinafter the Minister). The Court returned the case to the Minister to decide on Gaspé Énergies’ application for authorization to conduct exploratory drilling, taking into account the Court’s reasons for judgment, which found […]

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December 1st, 2021

Human Rights: Commission or Arbitrator?

Published by our Labour and Employment Law team. On October 22, 2021, the Supreme Court issued a decision in the Horrocks case1 regarding the respective jurisdictions of labour arbitrators and human rights tribunals. Although the original decision was handed down in Manitoba, the Horrocks ruling is of some interest to Quebec employers. Facts Linda Horrocks, an […]