Q4 | TORYS QUARTERLY • FALL 2019

Canadian Sector Report

In 2019, businesses in Canada have been busy confronting—and adapting to—significant market, regulatory and legal change across every sector.

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Included in this report:

Emerging sector trends

Growing sectors are managing new realities in their markets as they continue to develop.

How can Canada’s banks stay ahead of the cloud curve?
Since mainstream cloud computing services entered the financial sector several years ago, financial institutions in Canada have viewed cloud computing as a tool to revolutionize the way they operate and do business.
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  • U.S. tech looks north of the border
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  • Solving the broadband infrastructure gap
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  • The state of play in North American cannabis investment
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  • Key trends in Canadian real estate investment
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Financial institutions in Canada are working to make the most of what the cloud has to offer while mitigating regulatory risk at the same time.
—  How can Canada’s banks stay ahead of the cloud curve?

Regulatory and political impact

Key sectors in Canada are feeling the influence of a shifting regulatory and political landscape.

Pipeline problems persist in Canadian oil and gas
It has been a long and difficult stretch for Canadian oil and gas, with legal challenges, political decisions and takeaway capacity issues all serving to put pressure on an already stymied industry.
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  • Mining transactions proceed at measured pace and with need for creativity
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  • Investment in Canada’s power sector
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  • Getting projects built under Canada’s new impact assessment regime
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  • Financial institutions should expect more enforcement
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  • Consumer protection in the digital era
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Years of pressure have taken their toll on Canada’s oil and gas industry. It will take time for investors to rebuild their confidence in the Canadian regulatory and political climate such that we see capital spend flowing to the sector, and there is no imminent improvement expected following the recent federal election.
— Pipeline problems persist in Canadian oil and gas

Litigation

What should the role of privilege be in internal investigations? And when’s the right time to file a motion for security? Our litigators discuss.

Privilege claims in internal investigations
Properly claiming (and maintaining) privilege over all or part of an investigation can protect against legal requirements to produce investigation findings in the course of litigation. It is important to understand how privilege can be used in the context of internal investigations and what its limitations are.
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  • When should you get some security (for costs)?
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There are no hard and fast rules with respect to claims of privilege over the investigation report.
— Privilege claims in internal investigations

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