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9 CANADIANLAWYERMAG.COM/INHOUSE NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 A roundup of legal department news and trends She stresses that unless society and the law learn to think about sexual assault or sexual violence from this holistic viewpoint — meaning taking the emotions of the sur - vivors into account — people are not doing enough to help the cause. Mattoo suggests educating people about consent and sexual assault when they are young — teaching in middle schools and high schools. Shifting the way people think with education is part of the missing link she believes is needed in reform, especial - ly because these students go on to attend post-secondary schools from which societal change frequently stems. "Let's think about sexual violence in a more complicated way. It's beyond poli - cies, beyond structures. Let's think about it that it's a very human thing that happens to someone and incidents have an impact on people's lives, which are not to be trivial- ized and needs to be thought about more seriously," she says. IH — Alexia Kapralos Cross-border travel for cannabis businesses may continue to be problematic E van Green has been taking calls from a lot of concerned business people this year who are worried that even remote ties to a cannabis businesses could prevent them from getting across the border to the U.S. "The issue we have is that the borders are controlled by the federal gov - ernment and under [U.S.] federal legislation cannabis or anything related is an illegal thing. So the borders are enforcing that law notwithstanding the fact it's completely fine in California or Colorado," says Green, senior partner at immigration firm Green and Spiegel in Toronto. "The guidance we're getting now is so long as the activity [the business] takes place in Canada you're going to be OK," he says. That means, for example, that a CFO of a cannabis company going to New York City for the weekend to see a Broadway play would be fine, but if that person is going to a con - ference to expand business activity in the United States that person will probably have a problem. "That's where it's getting dicey," says Green. "If you have U.S. interests and are trying to expand that will be problematic." Some clarification came in mid-October when U.S. Customs and Immigration Services provided some updates. "What we're hearing now does provide some comfort for the people who have been in - volved on the periphery. If it's all Canadian based, you're probably going to be just fine." IH VIEW 2019 Canada's leading in-house counsel discuss their top priorities and challenges for 2019 TUNE IN JANUARY 2019 canadianlawyermag.com/inhouse/videos Pr P esente t d by Untitled-4 1 2018-10-23 2:22 PM

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