Teresa Scassa - Blog

The Supreme Court of Canada has issued its unanimous decision in The Queen v. Philip Morris International Inc. This appeal arose out of an ongoing lawsuit brought by the province of British Columbia against tobacco companies to recover the health care costs associated with tobacco-related illnesses in the province. Similar suits brought by other provincial governments are at different stages across the country. In most cases, the litigation is brought under provincial legislation passed specifically…

The pressure is on for Canada to amend its Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. The legislation, by any measure, is sorely out of date and not up to the task of protecting privacy in the big data era. We know this well enough – the House of Commons ETHI Committee recently issued a report calling for reform, and the government, in its response has acknowledge the need for changes to the law. The…