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CTLA
President’s Message
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aving recently attended my first in person conference in years, it proceeding involving the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Lac-Mégantic felt so good to see people again. There really is no replacement rail disaster, a session on the “Greening of Transportation”, a discussion for being able to embrace an old friend, or sit next to a new one, on the impact of COVID-19 on merger and acquisition deal trends in or move the conversation to a chic bar across the way. All of which North America, an overview of recent trends in insurance, presented cannot be done through a screen. Seeing the happy attendees at by key players in the insurance industry, as well presentations on cross TLA’s successful Annual Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia makes border trucking, marine and aviation. Our speakers are from across me very excited to welcome you all to CTLA’s Annual Conference and Canada, the US and Mexico. We are also tackling burnout in the legal AGM at The King Edward Hotel in Toronto, from October 13, 2022 to profession – which appears to be on the rise – our presenter will speak October 15, 2022. from personal experience and lead a discussion on how The CTLA took a hard hit over the past few years to improve the legal workplace. (I know we are not alone). While we were not able In addition to our educational sessions, we are to gather together and network, we did manage to looking forward to the networking opportunities and achieve one of our other important goals – providing events. The King Eddy is conveniently located downexcellent legal education, focussed on transportation town, and is an easy walk to great restaurants, the issues, presented by practitioners experienced in their refurbished and recently reopened Massey Hall, as well field. Past President Heather Devine hosted the inauas theatre and sporting venues. For those of you who gural virtual Annual Conference and AGM in 2020 and are fans of Nomad with Carlton McCoy on CNN you Past President Jean-François Bilodeau organized our will know that Toronto has some of the most diverse successful second virtual conference in 2021. As we culinary experiences in any North American City (the finalize the plans for our upcoming in person conferToronto episode aired on May 29/22). Our Dine Around ence, I am heartened by the number of “cold calls” I evening, following our welcome cocktail reception, will have recently received from young lawyers wanting Carole McAfee Wallace be reflective of the diversity of Toronto’s restaurant to find out more about the CTLA, and transportation scene. Our Can-Am competition is being finalized, and law in general. They see the importance of developing the annual Banquet Dinner on Saturday, October 15, 2022 will include expertise in a certain area of the law, and that transportation law is the passing of the Chain of Office. much more diverse than they realized. These young lawyers are joining CTLA and I look forward to their contributions and their ideas for the Perhaps most importantly, I hope that in addition to seeing old future of our association, and to meeting them in person at our confer- friends again, we will get to know our new members and those in ence in October. the early stages of their career, and that when we gather in person in The educational sessions at this year’s conference will cover all October, we take time to reflect on CTLA’s role in the development of modes of transportation and some unique topics. This year’s confer- a strong transportation bar, and we think about how we can make our ence will include a presentation from those involved in the class action association even better.
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Transportation Lawyers Association • Canadian Transport Lawyers Association • July 2022, Vol. 24, No. 1
