Submissions 2024

The OBA provides comments and recommendations to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario regarding proposed changes to its Rules of Procedure, focusing on the proposal for mandatory mediation.

The OBA provides a letter outlining the importance of upholding the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and recommendations on an Ontario-lead action plan to support the rights of children.

The OBA provides feedback to the Law Society of Ontario recommending it reject the Increased Transparency proposal as outlined. The public protection goals are important shared objectives, but the proposal has an extreme imbalance between the risks to licensees and the profession, and those public protection goals. We urge the LSO to work with legal stakeholders on an updated proposal that achieves the necessary balance for the profession and the public.

The OBA provides comments and recommendations to the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario on auto reforms. Comments speak to the impact that low statutory rates have on tort litigation and efficiency at the License Appeal Tribunal.

The OBA provides comments and recommendations to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario regarding proposed changes to its Rules of Procedure. Comments speak to the need for a meaningful consultation with sufficient time and details, the proposed elimination of case management conferences and summary hearings, limits on requests for orders during proceedings, and more.

The OBA provides recommendations on transitional provisions to support the transition to the 2024 PPS, to increase procedural fairness and predictability.

The OBA provides recommendations on draft proposed amendments to the Ontario Land Tribunal’s Rules of Practice and Procedure. Specifically, rules on initiating proceedings, roles and obligations of parties, settlement, case management conferences, reviews of tribunal decisions and orders, and new rules for expropriation proceedings.

The OBA provides technical feedback to the government on draft regulatory provisions to the Pension Benefits Act supporting the permanent framework for target benefits. Comments include recommendations for communications policies, benefit reduction and improvement, exemptions to solvency funding requirements, and more.

The OBA provides comments and recommendations on proposed amendments to allow substitute decision-makers to make beneficiary designations in an instrument that is renewing, replacing, converting, or transferring a similar instrument, provided that the beneficiary remains the same.

The OBA responds provides recommendations on Bill 194, the Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024, including recommendations to avoid deferring significant details to regulations, accounting for differences between public institutions, avoiding overregulating AI tools, and comments on proposed FIPPA amendments.