TRIBUNALS TAKEN OVER LOCK, STOCK AND BARREL – MORE C-31 SURPRISES: Tribunal funds to be transferred to “the Service”. Tribunal budgets are to be subsumed in the Service’s Budget. Chairs’ powers to control the expenditure of their budget would thus […]
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THE NEWS An omnibus government bill was tabled yesterday (March 28) in the House of Commons (Bill C-31[1]) entitled “An Act to Implement Provisions of the Budget Tabled in Parliament on February 11, 2014 and Other Measures”. Among the “other
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Last Saturday, I had serendipitously read two articles in succession. The first was Luis Millan’s piece in the March 14th issue of The Lawyers Weekly on the recently released Study of Quebec’s 15 adjudicative tribunals which had reported that those
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PREFACE Unjust by Design explicitly left Quebec out of its critique of Canada’s administrative justice system. The reasons for that exclusion appear in the first full paragraph on page 27 of the book and the final sentence in that paragraph reads:
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Introduction In his last post – Post #7, dated February 3, 2014 – the writer completed his description of each of the five reasons the Saskatchewan Attorney General presented to the Supreme Court as to why the unions’ applications for