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November 2nd, 2018

The Supreme Court Puts an End to the Judicial Saga Begun by Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation Limited

On November 2 the Supreme Court of Canada rendered a highly anticipated decision in the judicial saga involving Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation Limited (“CFLCo”) and Hydro-Québec1. The Court dismissed CFLCo’s appeal virtually unanimously for a lack of any legal basis, and in doing so refused to countenance any application of the theory of unforeseeability in […]

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October 29th, 2018

Section 59.1 of the Professional Code: Stricter Sanctions and Management of Proceedings

On June 8, 2017 some significant amendments to the Professional Code1 (the “Code”) came into force. Among them were amendments to section 156 increasing the severity of penalties for offences of a sexual nature targeted by section 59.1 of the Code or similar provisions in the various codes of ethics of Quebec’s professional orders. The primary […]

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October 29th, 2018

The New Mandatory Data Breach Reporting Regimes: Four Key Elements

On October 15, 2018 Statistics Canada published the results of a survey on cyber-security revealing that more than one in five Canadian businesses has been targeted by a cyber-attack, and that in 2017 they spent $14 billion to prevent and/or deal with the consequences of such security incidents1. As a general rule, businesses have no […]

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October 16th, 2018

Compliance Programs: A Guardrail to Keep You on the Path of Good Governance

In our previous bulletins on the duties and responsibilities of directors we looked at the extent of these obligations both from a general point of view1 and in certain specific situations2. These initial articles sought to simplify the norms that govern the work of directors, and to illustrate how they apply in specific contexts. We have […]

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October 16th, 2018

Commercialization of Cannabis

Publications

October 15th, 2018

The Reinforced Building Act: Obtaining and Retaining a Contractor’s Licence Has Become More Difficult

Key contact: Jean Patrick Dallaire On September 4, the Building Act became much stricter regarding the conditions for obtaining and retaining a contractor’s licence. It now gives broad powers to Quebec’s construction regulator, the Régie du bâtiment, requiring stakeholders in the construction industry to be pure as the driven snow. The Act to amend the […]