Contributing Lawyers

On January 18, 2011, I co-chaired a program entitled "Perspectives on the Revised ITAR Provisions on Dual and Third Country Nationals" that was hosted by the Canadian Embassy in Washington and co-sponsored by the American Bar...

The Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) will be under the microscope during the week of January 17-21, 2011 as the sixth rounds of negotiations take place in Brussels. One of the difficult...

Canada's Globe & Mail newspaper is reporting that "U.S., EU join fight over Ontario’s green energy plan". Shawn Murphy reports "The United States and the European Union emerged on Thursday as latest countries to say they have key...

An interesting article has been posted on Pacific Free Press entitled "Stopping CETA Undermining Canadian Law". No wonder it caught my attention. For a copy, please go to...

As the present time, the Ontario Government does not pay goods and services tax on any supplies of property and services. The reason is that the Federal Government does not currently pay goods and services tax is that it cannot,...

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said on February 4, 2010 that "the United States is committed to a rules-based trading system where the American people - and the Congress - can feel confident that when we sign an agreement...

The Ottawa Citizen newspaper published an article written by David Pugliese on January 25, 2010 entitled "Navy says no to buying American U.S. restrictions on technology can lead to delays". This article contains great reporting...

On July 22, 2009, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) made its decision in PR-2009-002 SIVA & ASSOCIATES v. Canada and determined that SIVA did not file its government procurement bid challenge within the 10 day...

I was surprised to read today's on-line National Post and see and article entitled "Bid to kill 'buy U.S.' hinges on provinces". To read the article, please go to the following link -...

A Canadian Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament tabled in Canada’s House of Commons  Bill C-306 “an Act respecting the use of government contracts to promote economic development (the “Canadian Products Promotion Act”) (also...

A Canadian New Democratic Member of Parliament tabled in Canada’s House of Commons  Bill C-312 “an Act respecting the use of government procurements and transfers to promote economic development” (“Made in Canada Act”) as a...

A potential bidder, bidder or contract awardee may have a remedy at the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) if a solicitation by the Canadian Government is improperly cancelled in order to divert the funds to...

Canada's Ambassador to the United States, Michael Wilson, has written a letter to Senator Harry Reid and Senator Mitch McConnell, the respective leaders of the Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, asking the Senators to...

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has written a letter warning of the "Buy America" provisions in Stimulus legislation.  Perrin Beatty, writes:

Dear Canadian Chamber of Commerce member:

As you are probably aware, an...

I have come across a posting on wrageblog setting out the top ten trends for anti-bribery enforcement in 2009.  The list set out below comes from the DOJ’s Mark Mendelsohn and summarizes what was said at an...

On September 29, 2008, Mayor David Miller unveiled a proposal to attract private investors from overseas to Toronto.  His proposal is to create two new arm's-length corporations for Toronto.  The new entities, to be...