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www.canadianlawyermag.com 7 "Convocation should be wary of restraining expressive freedom out of fear of injurious social media campaigns." Malcolm Mercer, LSO treasurer allegations were untrue. "Having unelected and unappointed people attending our meetings, and then without any restraint feeling that they can go on the attack on the internet, violated all of our privileges," she said. Mercer found that the motion to censure was beyond the scope of Convocation. The second motion, said Bencher Jared Brown, would make governance more effi- cient and accountable by limiting discourse to those who are elected and bound by a code of conduct. "Equity advisory groups are accorded a spe- cial status in this place," said Brown. "They have no fiduciary duties to the public or the mem- bership, no duty of confidentiality and, I sug- gest to you, no accountability." But benchers voted that the second mo- tion be returned to the Equity and Indigenous Affairs Committee in order to decide how to work with external partners such as the equity advisory group. How should Ontario e-verify identities? Q&A Founded Cybersecurity Startup Greg Wolfond Ceo Of Securekey ENTREPRENEUR Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey has said a new justice bill is "paving the way for online document verification and signing" in real estate and wills, and he has proposed changing the notaries act and commissioners for taking affidavits act. What's your background and what does your company do? A: One [Securekey] service is a login service: You can use your bank to login to CRA or to Service Canada or unemployment or different benefits. And you get all the security and strengthen your bank login — but you get the privacy of knowing your bank doesn't know what service you're going to and the government doesn't know what bank you're using. You agreed with Downey that things need to be better, speedier. What's the problem with the old way of doing things? A: The problem with the old way of doing things is . . . it puts a lot of burden on society. It takes a lot of time. It's expensive and it's slow. And, at the same time, [it's] susceptible to fraud. And law firms today are already dealing with that. . . . That's costing lawyers and law firms and trusts, and it's costing them real dollars. Downey has said he's interested in hearing from the legal profession about what areas of law they'd like to see this kind of digital verification expanded to. You mentioned one thing that works: having multiple factors of authentication. A: [Online verification] is a really good idea . . . [but]we have to do it right. I could do identity validation just by scanning a driver's licence and digital verification of the driver's licence. And I think that's going to move us toward digital faster . . . But it's going to move us to fraud much, much faster. It's not hard for someone to make a fake copy of a piece of plastic that is in their wallet. If you truly want to go digital, the combination of identity validations that we talked about makes it better. Alpha Adroit Forensic Engineering and Expert Opinion Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd. • Expert Witness • Expert Opinion • Failure Investigation • Forensic Geotechnical Engineering • Remedial Geotechnical Engineering • Forensic Civil Engineering Construction For: • Litigation • Arbitration • Insurance claims • Failure Investigation and Repair www.alphaadroit.ca Toll-Free (Canada only): 1-844-423-7648 Edmonton: 780-708-4110 Calgary: 403-918-4110 Red Deer: 403-918-4115 Vancouver: 778-322-4110 Saskatoon: 306-881-4115 Fort McMurray: 780-607-4114

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