Translation of "Commission de réforme du droit " (French → English) :

Today's copyright reform delivers on the Commission's December 2015 action plan for the modernisation of EU copyrights rules, with the aim to bring EU rules in line with technological developments and with the rapidly-changing behaviour of viewers online.

In the third quarter of 2016, the Commission will propose a copyright reform package aiming to achieve a fairer allocation of value generated by the online distribution of copyright-protected content by online platforms providing access to such content.

I apologize if I'm becoming emotional, but as a law professor, it's very frustrating to think that those who have the power to change the code in a constructive way ignore the reams of paper that are on the shelf in the Law Reform Commission of Canada from the 1980s to address real problems with this document that academics and experts have been studying for years and pronouncing about in their scholarship and in the Law Reform Commission reports.

Indeed the need for such reform in the sentencing process has been long recognized by judges, by parliamentarians, by lawyers, by Canadians themselves (1155 ) For over a decade there have been calls for such reform: a royal commission on the subject, the law reform commission, the Canadian sentencing commission which reported in 1987, and in 1988 an all-party committee of the House which had a comprehensive set of recommendations with respect to sentencing, conditional release and corrections.

In its 1987 report entitled Recodifying Criminal Law, the Law Reform Commission of Canada offered two models for reforming the law on corporate criminal liability (19) The first model would have retained the identification approach to corporate criminal liability with respect to offences of intent or recklessness; however, the Commission would have expanded the category of personnel whose conduct could trigger the corporation’s liability to include all employees who are “identifiable as persons with authority over the formulation or implementation of corporate policy,” provided that they were acting within the scope of their authority ( ...[+++]i.e., acting at least partially on behalf of the corporation and not in fraud of it).

I have recommended that the bodies that are charged with examining law reform at the national level, such as the Uniform Law Conference of Canada and the Law Commission of Canada, possibly consider the need for a uniform human rights statute for Canada.