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Jan 15, 2025 | 
southasianpost.com | Preet Gill
By Preet Gill, Associate LawyerSpecial to The PostThe Canadian Citizenship Act governs the process through which individuals can acquire Canadian citizenship, which is an essential part of Canadian identity. To become a Canadian citizen, you must meet several requirements. First, you must be a permanent resident of Canada and have lived in the country for at least 3 out of the last 5 years.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
asianpacificpost.com | Preet Gill
By Preet Gill, Associate LawyerSpecial to The PostThe Canadian Citizenship Act governs the process through which individuals can acquire Canadian citizenship, which is an essential part of Canadian identity. To become a Canadian citizen, you must meet several requirements. First, you must be a permanent resident of Canada and have lived in the country for at least 3 out of the last 5 years.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Preet Gill |Denise Bright
As detailed in our prior blog, Canadian Government (Finally) Provides Certaintyon Criminal Interest Rates, the Government of Canadaproposed amendments to lower the criminal interest rate to anannual percentage rate (APR) of 35 percent (the prior criminalinterest rate, being an effective rate of 60 percent, wasequivalent to an APR of about 48 percent).
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Denise Bright |Preet Gill
As detailed in our prior blog, Canadian Government (Finally) Provides Certainty on Criminal Interest Rates, the Government of Canada proposed amendments to lower the criminal interest rate to an annual percentage rate (APR) of 35 percent (the prior criminal interest rate, being an effective rate of 60 percent, was equivalent to an APR of about 48 percent).
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
bennettjones.com | Preet Gill |Denise Bright
As detailed in our prior blog, Canadian Government (Finally) Provides Certainty on Criminal Interest Rates, the Government of Canada proposed amendments to lower the criminal interest rate to an annual percentage rate (APR) of 35 percent (the prior criminal interest rate, being an effective rate of 60 percent, was equivalent to an APR of about 48 percent).
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Kelsey Meyer |Jesse Mighton |Preet Gill |Adam Williams
In the unrelated companion cases of Aquino v Bondfield
Construction Co, 2024 SCC 31 (Aquino) and Scott v
Golden Oaks Enterprises Inc, 2024 SCC 32 (Golden Oaks), the
Supreme Court of Canada (the SCC or the Court) applied the common
law doctrine of corporate attribution to bankruptcy and insolvency
law through a purposive, contextual, and pragmatic approach.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Preet Gill |Kaamil Khalfan |Kelsey Meyer
[co-authors: Sarah Paull and Shawn Kirkman - Articling Students]In the unrelated companion cases of Aquino v Bondfield Construction Co, 2024 SCC 31 (Aquino) and Scott v Golden Oaks Enterprises Inc, 2024 SCC 32 (Golden Oaks), the Supreme Court of Canada (the SCC or the Court) applied the common law doctrine of corporate attribution to bankruptcy and insolvency law through a purposive, contextual, and pragmatic approach.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
bennettjones.com | Kelsey Meyer |Jesse Mighton |Preet Gill |Adam Williams
In the unrelated companion cases of Aquino v Bondfield Construction Co, 2024 SCC 31 (Aquino) and Scott v Golden Oaks Enterprises Inc, 2024 SCC 32 (Golden Oaks), the Supreme Court of Canada (the SCC or the Court) applied the common law doctrine of corporate attribution to bankruptcy and insolvency law through a purposive, contextual, and pragmatic approach.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Doug Fenton |Preet Gill |Robert Staley
In ruling that a securities regulatory authority's disgorgement orders (a sanction stemming from misconduct) survive a bankruptcy discharge while its administrative penalties do not, the Supreme Court of Canada endorsed the principle that "every claim is swept into the bankruptcy and that the bankrupt is released from all of them upon being discharged unless the law sets out a clear exclusion or exemption." The Supreme Court’s decision clarifies the differing treatment of administrative...
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
bennettjones.com | Robert Staley |Preet Gill |Doug Fenton |Adam Walji
In ruling that a securities regulatory authority's disgorgement orders (a sanction stemming from misconduct) survive a bankruptcy discharge while its administrative penalties do not, the Supreme Court of Canada endorsed the principle that "every claim is swept into the bankruptcy and that the bankrupt is released from all of them upon being discharged unless the law sets out a clear exclusion or exemption." The Supreme Court’s decision clarifies the differing treatment of administrative...
