The Houdini gambit

The fatal flaws in Ottawa’s legal case for a national securities regulator

By Jeffrey MacIntosh

This commentary was first published in the Financial Post on November 23, 2010.

Unique initiative empowers First Nations communities to govern commercial and environmental law

(Nov. 1, 2010 – Toronto) Commercial law is a vital and central component of governance in any community and Indigenous communities are no exception. But the role of commercial law in governance and economic development is often overlooked as a means of asserting jurisdiction and developing commercial enterprises. 

Prof. Audrey Macklin has commented in various media about the legal obligations and issues around the arrival in BC of a ship full of Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka.

In the Globe and Mail, Prof. Macklin penned a commentary on the issue with immigration lawyer Lorne Waldman ("Why we can’t turn away the Tamil ships," August 17, 2010).

Read the full commentary.

In a commentary in The Hill Times, Prof. Trudo Lemmens takes a closer look at the privacy issues cited by the federal government as the reason for the cancellation the mandatory long-form census ("Is privacy really at the heart of mandatory census change?" August 23, 2010).

Read the full commentary (PDF).