Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Tamra Thomson, and I am the director of legislation and law reform with the Canadian Bar Association. With me today is Maître Isabelle Dongier, member of our national citizenship and immigration law section and one of a team of several lawyers wh

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members. I will start for the Canadian Bar Association and then Mr. Turmel will conclude. I'd like to thank the committee for inviting the Canadian Bar Association to appear with respect to Bill C-377. We appear today on behalf of our nationa

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members. The Canadian Bar Association welcomes the opportunity to appear before you today on the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act. We consider this to be very important legacy legislation that you are considering today. The Canadian Bar

Industry committee  Essentially, it's part II of the executive summary.

Industry committee  Not for this bill, but for predecessors of this bill.

Industry committee  No.

Industry committee  In 2005, but I'm not....

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  No. We're exempt.

Industry committee  However, the law societies, our governing bodies, have brought in the special regulations in terms of dealing with only small amounts of cash from clients and with special rules to identify your clients that are more stringent than the reporting requirements, in order to avoid th

Industry committee  Yes. Those were the client identification rules.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will start and then my colleagues will continue on. I think you are all familiar with the Canadian Bar Association as a national association representing over 37,000 jurists across Canada. Amongst our objectives are the improvement of the law and the imp

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members. The Canadian Bar Association is pleased to appear before the committee today. We are here representing the charities and not-for-profit law section of the CBA, and since most of you are familiar with the Canadian Bar Association from

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members. I will start and then give the floor to Maître Arsenault and then Mr. Greene. The Canadian Bar Association is very pleased to appear before your committee today. The issue of who can represent those applying to immigrate to Canada h