by George Roy | Apr 20, 2020 | Bill Status, Legislation, New Bills
Second Session, Forty-Second Legislature
Passed
Government Bills
First Reading and Passed
- Bill 54: The Emergency Measures Amendment Act ( amendment(s) adopted at Committee Stage) – Currently, only the minister or a local authority may make emergency orders to prevent or limit loss of life and damage to property and the environment. This Bill gives the Lieutenant Governor in Council the power to make three types of orders when a state of emergency is declared.
- Bill 55: The Employment Standards Code Amendment Act – This Bill amends The Employment Standards Code to add a temporary job-protected leave for employees who are unable to work due to circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The requirement for an employee to provide a certificate from a health professional in respect of a leave provided for in the Code is also temporarily suspended.
- Bill 56: The Family Maintenance Amendment Act – amends The Family Maintenance Act. It enables maintenance enforcement officials to make more frequent inquiries to determine if a maintenance obligation for an adult child remains eligible for enforcement. In addition, when a request is made for an administrative suspension of a maintenance order, each party is entitled to a copy of material submitted by the other party, with any sensitive information deleted.
- Bill 57: The Regulated Health Professions Amendment Act – amends The Regulated Health Professions Act to allow a regulated health profession college to re-register former members, without complying with the usual registration requirements, if the minister notifies the college that a threat to public health exists and their assistance is required.
- Bill 58: The Residential Tenancies Amendment Act – amends The Residential Tenancies Act.
- Rent is frozen at the amount payable immediately before April 1, 2020.
- Evictions are limited to specific circumstances that infringe, interfere with or adversely affect the security, safety, health or well-being of other tenants, such as engaging in unlawful activity. This amendment is effective as of March 24, 2020.
- Late fees for failure to pay rent are prohibited.
- Bill 59: The Public Health Amendment Act – amends The Public Health Act. New prohibitions or requirements can be made in a public health emergency order to prevent the spread of a communicable disease. Measures to assist in the enforcement of public health emergency orders are added. The fines for failing to comply with public health emergency orders are increased. Additional persons may be authorized by regulation to enforce the Act and orders made under it. Orders made under the Act are not subject to The Statutes and Regulations Act. Orders directed to the public at large may be published on a government website.
- Bill 60: The Appropriation Act, 2020 (COVID-19 Response)
- Bill 61: The Loan Act, 2020
- Bill 62: The Fuel Tax Amendment and Retail Sales Tax Amendment Act – amends The Fuel Tax Act to suspend, for the duration of the 2020 public health emergency, the requirements that a carrier who is not licenced under the International Fuel Tax Agreement pay a tax and obtain a single-trip permit upon entering Manitoba.
Private Bills
Passed
Check here for the current status of bills.
As part of its effort to provide accurate information about COVID-19, the Winnipeg Free Press has released a free article detailing these emergency bills. See here for more details.
by George Roy | Apr 17, 2020 | Legislation, Proclamations
The Government has issued the following Proclamation:
The Business Registration, Supervision and Ownership Transparency Act (Various Acts Amended) (S.M. 2019, c. 25)
- sections 1, 2 and 9 and Parts 2 and 3 come into force on April 9, 2020
- sections 3 to 8 and Part 4 to come into force on June 27, 2020
This act deals with Extra-Provincial Registrations, Supervision of Cooperatives, and Ownership Transparency. It makes amendments to The Business Names Registration Act, The Cooperatives Act, The Corporations Act and The Partnership Act.
by George Roy | Apr 16, 2020 | Access to Justice, Court of Appeal, Court of Queen's Bench, Notices, Notices, Provincial Court
A new notice to the profession has been posted from all three courts detailing further restriction of access to the courthouses. This notice will limit the number of support persons to two per accused or victim.
It also reminds counsel to respect social distancing and maintaining a two meter gap.
To see the whole notice, please click here.
by George Roy | Apr 10, 2020 | COVID-19, Legislation
The government of Manitoba has set new fine limits for individuals and businesses under The Public Health Act as part of its action to reduce spreading of COVID-19 and to “flatten the curve.”
The fines have been set at $486 for individuals and $2,542 for businesses that breach the new emergency measures.
To see the full news release and more details, click here.
by George Roy | Apr 9, 2020 | Journals, New Books
New issues of the following journals are now available through WestlawNext Canada and Lexis Advance Quicklaw.
For members of the Law Society of Manitoba, if you would like to read any of these articles, or if you are interested in any other publications we offer, please contact us for assistance at library@lawsociety.mb.ca.
From WestlawNext Canada:
Journal of Environmental Law and Practice, Vol. 33
- Bill 4 and the Removal of Cap and Trade: A Case Study of Carbon Pricing, Climate Change Law and Public Participation in Ontario, Canada
- Heidegger on Technology: Towards a Less-Anthropocentric, Multi-Disciplinary Legal Definition of “Sustainable”?
- An Initial Evaluation of Canada’s New Sustainability-Based Impact Assessment Act
University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 70
- Irit Samet, Equity: Conscience Goes to Market
- The Patriation of Canadian Corporate Law
- Institutions Protecting Constitutional Democracy: Some Conceptual and Methodological Preliminaries
- Criminal Law in an Age of Mass Incarceration
- Criminalization, Legal Moralism, and Abolition
- Marriage, Work, and the Invention of Family Law in English Legal Thought
McGill Journal of Law and Health, Vol. 13
- Physician Dismissal of Vaccine Refusers: A Legal and Ethical Analysis
- Surgical Informed Consent and Recognizing a Perioperative Duty to Disclose in Transgender Health Care
- Could Open Be the Yellow Brick Road to Innovation in Genomics in North America?
- Le Parcours Judiciaire Des Victimes D’Insalubrité (Le Cas De La Moisissure)
University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review, Vol. 78
- The Circumstances of Change: Understanding the Bedford/Carter Exceptions to Vertical Stare Decisis
- Rumours of Corruption: Referrals from the World Bank Sanctions System to National Law Enforcement Authorities
- Fixing the Odds: Designing Intelligent Loot Box Policy in the Canadian Context
National Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 40
- Telling Stories: The Crown, Parliament and Canada
- Flexible and Cooperative Federalism: Distinguishing the Two Approaches in the Interpretation and Application of the Division of Powers
- R. v. Comeau: Expert Evidence at Trial
- Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal Bungles the School Boards’ Human Rights Duty to Accommodate Students with Disabilities–J.F. v. Waterloo Catholic District School Board—An Erroneous Rejection of a Student’s Request to Bring His Autism Service Dog to School
Canadian Criminal Law Review, Vol. 25
- The Shifting Focus of Canadian Impaired Driving Enforcement: The Increased Role of Provincialand Territorial Administrative Sanctions
- At the Mercy of the Court: Canadian Sentencing Principles and the Concept of Mercy
- Objective Fault, Strict Liability, and Javanmardi
- R. c. Javanmardi ou la Simplicité Trompeuse
From Lexis Advance QuickLaw
Canadian Bar Review, Vol. 97 (also available on CanLII)
- Shopkeeper’s Privilege: Coming to a Store Near You?, (2019) 97 Can Bar Rev 559 – 589
- Predictive Coding: Adopting and Adapting Artificial Intelligence in Civil Litigation, (2019) 97 Can Bar Rev 486 – 525
- A Trojan Horse: Can Indian Self-Government be Promoted Through the Indian Act?, (2019) 97 Can Bar Rev 697 – 720
- Reconciliation and Ethical Lawyering: Some Thoughts on Cultural Competence, (2019) 97 Can Bar Rev 527 – 557
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