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Archives for October 2022

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The risky internal auditor

Earlier this week, I discussed the topic of the risky risk officer. What is the ideal risk attitude to have in a risk practitioner? Today, I want to shift to the risk attitude of the internal auditor. Do we want an internal auditor that is so risk averse they won’t spend $5 on a lottery ticket with a 10% chance of winning $100,000?

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Domestic violence: Obligations and responsibilities of employers in Quebec

In this context of legislative change and the rise of remote work, we offer an overview of what obligations, if any, employers have towards their employees who are living in situations of domestic (or family) violence in light of the pre-existing legal framework as well as the coming into force of new provisions.

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An evolving digital privacy landscape—Comparing the federal Bill C-27’s CPPA to Quebec’s Bill 64

The Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information received royal assent on September 22, 2021, introducing amendments to the privacy regime and the framework governing the use and collection of personal information by public and private sector privacy laws in Quebec. Meanwhile, on June 16, 2022, the federal government introduced three new acts under Bill C-27, An Act to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act, the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act and the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts (or Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022).

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