As you mentioned, this does not add any regulation of lawyers. In the view of the Department of Finance officials, the legal profession remains a high risk for money laundering, and we are continuing to work with the legal profession and specifically the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. We have an ongoing working group with them to explore ways to enhance the anti-money-laundering and anti-terrorist-financing supervision of the legal profession.
On May 17th, 2021. See this statement in context.