AGENDA – Annual Joint Conference
August 15 to 17, 2018
Toronto, Ontario
Wednesday August 15
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Heads of Office Meeting – Legislative Building (Room TBC)
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Meet-and-Greet/Tour of the Legislative Building – Legislative Building (Room TBC)
Thursday August 16
8:30 am to 9:00 am
Registration – Legislative Building (Room TBC)
9:00 am to 9:15 am
Words of Welcome and Announcements – Adoption of 2017 Minutes – Appointment of the Nomination Committee – Presenter: Presidents – Legislative Building (Room TBC)
9:15 am to 10:00 am
Session 1: Indigenous Law – Presenter: Peter Beaman
10:00 am to 10:40 am
Session 2: Reserved Seats for Women – Presenters: Glen Rutland and Alyssa Holland
10:40 am to 10:55 am
Break
10:55 am to 11:20 am
Session 3: Review of Bills for Constitutional Compliance (Part 2) – Presenters: John Mark Keyes and Charles Feldman
11:20 am to 11:55 pm
Session 4: Jurisdictional Updates (7 minutes per Jurisdiction)
British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan – Presenters: Corinne Swystun, Peter Pagano, Shannon Dean, Ian Brown, Ken Ring
11:55 pm to 12:15 pm
Group Photo
12:15 pm to 1:45 pm
Break (On your own)
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Session 5: Part 1 – Exercise of Police Powers and Parliamentary Privilege (UPAC/Quebec’s Anti-Corruption Unit); Part 2 – Decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal in the Case of Singh c. Attorney General of Quebec – Presenter: Siegfried Peters
3:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Session 6: Assessing Regulatory Excellence – Presenter: Ian Brown
3:30 pm to 3:45 pm
Break
3:45 pm to 4:30 pm
Session 7: Jurisdictional Updates (8 minutes per Jurisdiction)
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut – Presenters: Elena Bosi, Susan Burns, Gordon Hebb, Peter Allison, Susan King, Kimberly Hawley George, Norman Tarnow, Michael Chandler
Friday August 17
8:15 am to 9:00 am
Breakfast – Legislative Building (Room TBC)
9:00 am to 9:45 am
Session 8: International Perspectives – Brexit (Part 2) – Presenter: Saira Salimi
9:45 am to 10:15 am
Session 9: Roundtable: Diversity in Our Workplace and Other Office Management Issues – Moderators: Corinne Swystun and Suzie Seo
10:15 am to 10:45 am
Session 10: Jurisdictional Updates (7.5 minutes per Jurisdiction)
Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Yukon – Presenters: Christina Wasyliw, Mike Reddy, Sheila MacPherson, Sandra Markman
10:45 am to 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am to 11:30 am
Session 11: Update on Judicial Review of Delegated Legislation and Discussion on What the Standard of Review Should Be – Presenters: Corinne Swystun and John Mark Keyes
11:30 am to 12:15 pm
Session 12: Approaches to Managing Legislative Demands – Presenter: Peter Beaman
12:15 pm to 1:30 pm
Break (On your own)
1:30 pm to 1:40 pm
Report – Presenter: Nominations Committee
1:40 pm to 2:15 pm
Session 14: Annual Review of Parliamentary Case Law – Presenters: Michel Bédard and Indrani Laroche
2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Session 15: International Perspectives: U.S. – Presenter: Willoughby Sheane
3:00 pm to 3:15 pm
Break – Legislative Building (Room TBC)
3:15 pm to 4:00 pm
Session 16: Jurisdictional Updates (9 minutes per Jurisdiction)
Quebec, Ontario, Senate, House of Commons, Department of Justice (Fed.) – Presenters: Siegfried Peters, Peter Sibenik, S. Suzie Seo, Philippe Dufresne, Mala Khanna
4:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Closing Remarks – Presenters: Presidents