June 29, 2026
The voluntary nature of King Charles’s tax payments has already attracted misuse by tax protesters, who argue by analogy that if taxation is voluntary for the monarch, it must be voluntary for all. This argument has no validity under Canadian law. It is, however, only the latest iteration of a broader family of pseudolegal commercial arguments that Canadian courts have been rejecting for decades.
June 29, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney has appointed Heather Evans as commissioner of revenue, effective July 13, 2026.
June 26, 2026
King Charles III has announced the public disclosure of the total amount of personal income tax he voluntarily paid to the British government: £12.9 million for 2024-2025. This figure was published as part of the annual Royal Household finances report released in June 2026. This is reported to be the first time a reigning British monarch has publicly quantified personal tax paid in a given year.
June 25, 2026
Earlier this year, the Divisional Court of Ontario found that procedures adopted by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) to determine its jurisdiction were unreasonable and contrary to law.
June 23, 2026
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs has publicly weighed in on a Supreme Court of Canada nomination, stating they “wholeheartedly endorse” Manitoba Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal’s candidacy and are “confident he will bring fairness, wisdom and humility to Canada’s highest court.”
June 23, 2026
On May 14, 2026, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published a notice and request for comment in respect of a suite of proposed amendments to the issuer bid, take-over bid and beneficial ownership reporting regimes in Canada, marking the most significant set of changes in more than a decade.
June 22, 2026
Manitoba Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal, widely reputed in recent years to be a leading candidate for appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada, has been nominated to fill the western vacancy that opened up with the May 30 retirement of Supreme Court of Canada Justice Sheilah Martin, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on June 22.
June 19, 2026
I articled for the now defunct law firm of Goodman and Carr. It was a well-regarded firm in its day. Wolfe Goodman was a senior partner and a leading tax lawyer of his era. In my tax rotation, I spent considerable time with him. He made tax sound so interesting that there was even a brief moment in time that I thought I wanted to be a tax lawyer.
June 17, 2026
Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson François Boileau tabled his annual report in Parliament on June 12, which found a surge in complaints against the CRA compared to the last three fiscal years. The report also provided the Office of the Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson’s (OTO) recommendations.
June 16, 2026
Ottawa has proposed a new legislative regime for private-sector privacy regulation that imposes a raft of obligations on how businesses and other non-governmental organizations handle Canadians’ personal data, with oversight from a robust dual privacy and digital harms regulator armed with audit and binding order-making powers, backed by hefty administrative monetary penalties (AMPs) and fines for the most serious new offences.