10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET
Virtual Event
Registration closes Wednesday, April 29, 2025.
Join us for an informative webinar designed to help public procurement professionals understand the implications of Canada’s Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act.
This legislation requires many Canadian organizations to submit an annual report outlining the steps taken to prevent or reduce the risk of forced or child labour within their operations and supply chains. The submission deadline for the 2024 reporting year is May 31, 2025.
In this session, Lisa Cabel, Partner and National Leader in KPMG in Canada’s Employment and Labour Law practice, and Kenn Jordan, Tax Partner in KPMG’s Trade & Customs practice, will share insights on how KPMG’s multidisciplinary team supports organizations in meeting these new compliance requirements. Topics will include supply chain review, analysis of existing policies/protocols, risk identification, training, continuous improvement measures, and preparing the annual report to be signed by the organization’s governing body.
This session will provide practical guidance tailored to the public sector and the evolving responsibilities of procurement professionals in promoting ethical supply chains.
Presenters:
Lisa Cabel - Partner, National Leader Employment & Labour Law KPMG Law LLP
Lisa is an experienced management-side employment, labour and human rights lawyer, whose practice focuses on all matters relating to employee relations. Lisa works with diverse clients across all industries, from start-ups and family businesses to large-cap public or private sector employees and companies.
Lisa provides her clients with advice on a broad range of employment, labour relation and human rights issues such as collective agreement interpretation and negotiation, collective bargaining, employee discipline and terminations, wrongful dismissal claims, health and safety issues, harassment claims, workplace policies, workplace investigations and provides clients with day-to-day legal advice. She is a frequent conference speaker with expertise in Human Rights, Pay Equity and Bill S-211 relating to Canada’s new Modern Slavery laws.
Kenn Jordan - Partner, Trade & Customs, KPMG in CanadaKenn is a partner with the KPMG Canada Indirect Tax practice in Toronto. Kenn has 12 years’ experience advising clients with accounting firms, including 10 years with KPMG. Prior to joining KPMG as a partner, Kenn led the trade advisory practice at a mid-market consulting firm.
Kenn has extensive experience working on projects involving various government agencies and non-government organizations, both within and outside of Canada, which assists in building a complete understanding of the import process and import requirements. Bringing this holistic approach to serving clients allows Kenn to assist in mitigating risks while creating liquidity in an area that is usually considered a cost centre.
Kenn specializes in auditing processes and procedures, process and procedure improvement, duty recoveries and mitigation, and establishing new business in Canada with compliant customs functions.
You're welcome to send any questions for the presenters to wendy@opba.ca ahead of the webinar, and we’ll include them in the Q&A session at the end of the presentation.
Please note that the responses provided are not legal advice. Attendees are responsible for independently verifying any information taken from the session.
Registration Fees:
| Title | Fee | Valid Dates | Member Status | Points | CEUs | Hours |
| Members | $20.00 + HST | Available until Jan 22, 2025 | Members Only | 1.0000 | 0.0000 | 1.0000 |
| Non-Members | $35.00 + HST | Available until Jan 22, 2025 | All Registrants | 1.0000 | 0.0000 | 1.0000 |
Please refer to our refund + payment policy for information regarding cancellations and/or refunds.
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