Legislative Drafting Webinar I Cosmetics Regulation and Product Labelling in Canada: The Challenges (1:21:55)

Date

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

90-minute webinar

Theme

What can we learn from histories of legislative drafting about the many ways that drafters shape the world? In this highly engaging presentation, Lara Tessaro will narrate the dramatic history of the 1953 revision to Canada’s Food and Drugs Act, focusing specifically on how legislative drafters and departmental solicitors grappled with cosmetics. Her historical research on Canadian cosmetics regulation has uncovered how these drafting and policy choices made 70 years ago continue to influence—if unintentionally and accidentally—how cosmetics are governed today, including their environmental and human health effects. As with much of Ms. Tessaro’s PhD research at the University of Kent, the central source for this historical account is a drafter’s file—notably, the file of well-known legislative counsel Elmer A. Driedger. As such, this presentation will also provide an opportunity for legislative counsel to reflect on the ways that modern-day filing, documenting, and archiving practices, all changing rapidly in response to electronic and remote work, will give form to important “future histories” written about the present.

Speaker

• Lara Tessaro, PhD Candidate & Graduate Teaching Assistant, Kent Law School, University of Kent

Moderator

• Pauline Rosenbaum, Legislative Counsel, Ontario’s Office of Legislative Counsel

Fees
CIAJ Members: Free
Non-members: $40