CBA Task Force on Justice Issues Arising from COVID-19

The Task Force on Justice Issues Arising from COVID-19 was a task force of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA).
History
On April 28, 2020, the CBA announced the launch of its Task Force on Justice Issues Arising from COVID-19 which would "examine in the wake of pandemic crisis systemic changes to improve the federal legal and justice systems overall."[1]
The Task Force published its report on February 17, 2021.[2]
Members
Name | Role | Notes |
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Vivene Salmon | Co-Chair[1:1] | Past President of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Brad Regehr | Co-Chair[3] | President of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Richard Wagner | Justice System Partner | Supreme Court of Canada, Canadian Judicial Council (CJC) |
Marc Noël | Justice System Partner | Federal Court of Appeal |
Paul Crampton | Justice System Partner | Federal Court of Canada |
Eugene Rossiter | Justice System Partner | Tax Court of Canada |
François Daigle | Justice System Partner | Department of Justice Canada |
Owen Rees | Justice System Partner | Department of Justice Canada |
Morgan Cooper | Justice System Partner | Federation of Law Societies of Canada (FLSC) |
Daniel Gosselin | Justice System Partner | Courts Administration Service (CAS) |
Francine Côté | Justice System Partner | Courts Administration Service (CAS) |
Orlando da Silva | Justice System Partner | Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada (ATSSC) |
Robert Leckey | Justice System Partner | Council of Canadian Law Deans |
Catherine Dauvergne | Justice System Partner | Council of Canadian Law Deans |
Jody Berkes | Member | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Martine Boucher | Member | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Daniel Bourque | Member | Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (CCCA) |
Erin Brook | Member | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Steeves Bujold | Member | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
John Gillis | Member | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Lisa Hynes | Member | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Sharon Kravetsky | Member | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Tom Laughlin | Member | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Steve Pengelly | Member | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Kathryn Pentz | Member | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Christopher Wirth | Member | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Stuart Zacharias | Member | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Jennifer Brun | Contributor | - |
Karen Eltis | Contributor | - |
Patricia Hebert | Contributor | - |
David Hutt | Contributor | - |
Kerry Simmons | Contributor | - |
Kara Bodie | Student Researcher | - |
Alexandra Nestorova | Student Researcher | - |
Marc-André O'Rourke | Project Director | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Louise Brunet-Hermus | Support Staff | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Kim Covert | Support Staff | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Lyne Demmery | Support Staff | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Louis Robillard | Support Staff | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Tamra Thomson | Support Staff | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
Sebrina Vandor | Support Staff | Canadian Bar Association (CBA) |
CBA Task Force on COVID-19 convened. (2020, April 28). National Magazine. http://archive.vn/2025.02.21-231538/https://nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/law/rule-of-law/2020/cba-task-force-on-covid-19-convened ↩︎ ↩︎
No Turning Back: CBA Task Force Report on Justice Issues Arising from COVID-19. (2021, February 17). Canadian Bar Association. https://web.archive.org/web/20250313003208/https://www.cba.org/CBAMediaLibrary/cba_na/PDFs/Publications And Resources/2021/CBATaskForce.pdf ↩︎
Salmon, V., & Regehr, B. (2021). No Turning Back: CBA Task Force Report on Justice Issues Arising from COVID-19. Canadian Bar Association. https://web.archive.org/web/20210219191148/https://www.cba.org/CBAMediaLibrary/cba_na/PDFs/Publications And Resources/2021/CBATaskForce.pdf ↩︎