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July 22nd, 2024

Adoption of Bill C-58: Regulating the use of replacement workers in conflict situations (strikes or lockouts) for federally regulated employers

On June 20 2024, Bill C-58, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code and the Canada Industrial Relations Board Regulations, 2012, which aims to regulate the use of temporary replacement workers in Canada, has passed the final stage of the legislative adoption process by receiving Royal Assent (the "Act").

Publications

July 15th, 2024

Legal framework for artificial intelligence: What are the statutory protections against deepfakes?

Deepfakes can be defined as manipulation using advanced artificial intelligence (“AI”), that allows images, voices, videos, or text to be digitally altered, or even generated entirely, to create highly realistic representations or sounds of fake events.

Publications

July 11th, 2024

Amendments to the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business: take-aways for companies doing business in Québec

On June 26, 2024, the Quebec government published the final version of the Regulation to amend mainly the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business ("Regulation"). Some provisions of the Regulation come into force on July 11, 2024; the remainder will come into force on June 1, 2025.

Publications

July 8th, 2024

Trademark owners: Get ready for the changes to the Charter of the French language – June 2024 update

On June 26, 2024, the Government of Québec published the final version of the Regulation to amend mainly the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business (the “Regulation”), which clarifies certain changes to signage exceptions involving trademarks in languages other than French under the Charter of the French language (the “Charter”).

Publications

May 22nd, 2024

The right to portability: new obligations for businesses and public bodies

On September 22, 2024, the right to portability will come into force in Quebec.

Publications

May 17th, 2024

Anonymization of personal information in Québec: The Regulation respecting the anonymization of personal information is coming into force

On May 15, 2024, the Regulation respecting the anonymization of personal information (the “Regulation”) was published in the Gazette officielle du Québec. It comes into force on May 30, 2024.