Perspectives Newsletter
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Plus a new B.C. decision on employment contracts, important news on federal tax incentives for rental housing construction, recent developments from Canada’s securities commissions, and our latest “Views from the Market” podcast.
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Competition
In the Green Zone: Navigating the Competition Act’s New Greenwashing Provisions
The new prohibition against greenwashing under the Competition Act took effect on June 20, 2024, while private actions for deceptive marketing practices will take effect next year. This prohibition merely codifies existing law against deceptive claims about the environmental benefits of a product and introduces an additional new requirement for general environmental claims by a business to align with internationally recognized methodologies.?Read?More
New Public Register Proposed for Advocates of Foreign State-Owned and Controlled Enterprises
Bill C-70, the Countering Foreign Interference Act, has been passed by Parliament and?received Royal Assent on June 20, 2024. The Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act will come into force on a date to be set by the Governor-in-Council in the coming months.?Read?More
Corporations & Commercial
Québec’s Language Legislation: Release of Regulations Impacting Commercial Contracts and Trademarks
This post summarizes a newly published regulation amending the Québec Charter of the French Language and the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business in key areas such as commercial contract drafting and the use of English-language trademarks.?Read?More
Capital Markets & Securities
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EMDs Can Now Participate in Prospectus Offerings
The securities regulators in Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova?Scotia, Ontario, Québec and Saskatchewan have published a temporary exemption that allows exempt market dealers to participate in prospectus offerings as members of selling groups in order to support capital-raising by early-stage businesses. The relief has been implemented through substantially harmonized blanket orders that are effective for 18?months. Read?More
AMF Highlights Key Initiatives in its 2024-2025 Annual Statement of?Priorities
The Autorité des marchés financiers (“AMF”) recently published its?2024-2025 Annual Statement of Priorities, which outlines key initiatives that the Québec securities regulatory authority intends to pursue for the period from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025. The initiatives form?part of the implementation of the AMF’s?2021-2025 Strategic Plan, which envisions the AMF as “a value-added regulator for consumers and the financial sector.”?Read?More
Tax
Enhanced GST/HST Rebate for Purpose-Built Rental Housing: Latest Developments
Incentivizing construction of new rental homes is a key policy priority for Canadian governments. As discussed in an earlier post, the federal Department of Finance issued a news release on September 14,?2023 relating to proposed enhancements to the GST New Residential Rental Property rebate on certain eligible new purpose-built rental?housing.?In this post, we briefly review this new “PBRH Rebate”, which became law on December 15, 2023, in addition to other significant recent developments.?Read?More
Employment & Pension
Tailwinds of “Common Sense” Buoy Employers: British Columbia Court of Appeal Upholds Simple Termination Clause
In the decision of?Egan v. Harbour Air Seaplanes LLP, 2024 BCCA 222,?the British Columbia Court of Appeal upheld a termination clause in an employment agreement, rejecting various arguments to undermine the clause’s validity.?Read?More
Mergers & Acquisitions
Views from the Market: Midmarket M&A and Private Equity Podcast
Stikeman Elliott M&A partner Mario Nigro and Jas Dhaliwal, Managing Director at Vancouver-based Lark Street Capital discuss current trends in the market, with a focus on Lark Street’s midmarket M&A advisory work.?Listen?to?the?podcast
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