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Buset & Partners LLP provides advice to many Northern municipalities regarding potential liabilities involved in the exercise of their corporate powers; service contracts, road maintenance, environmental protection and land contamination, public and power utilities, transportation facilities, labour and employment, and recreation facilities.
Our firm keeps abreast of changes in all statutes, regulations, and government policies affecting municipalities through continuing legal education initiatives. Our lawyers regularly receive government department update bulletins and newsletters researched for the firm, attend relevant conferences throughout Canada and attain new in-house library and technological resources on topical issues.
Buset & Partners LLP has a proven track record dealing with the Assessment Review Board, Ontario Municipal Board and the courts on issues of assessment, taxation and tax sales, including Aboriginal law aspects. Our firm deals with industrial, commercial, non-profit, residential, and government facilities.
Our firm has represented clients at the local, provincial and federal levels in negotiations and hearings on planning and development agreement issues. We have appeared before various tribunals, courts, Councils, Planning Authorities and Committees of Adjustment. Our lawyers have experience dealing in approvals, subdivision matters, severance and variance issues, Official Plan and by-law amendments, building permits, financing, construction tendering and contracts, contaminated land and rehabilitation compliance, multi-jurisdictional water rights, infrastructure financing, and land compensation.
Our Labour Department understands the unique issues involved with the employment and termination of municipal employees, whether master and servant employees, union members, statutory officers, or independent contractors. Our labour lawyers have extensive experience in arbitrations, negotiations, and appearing before labour tribunals.
Buset & Partners LLP routinely reviews by-laws and mandated municipal policies for compliance with the Municipal Act, 2001 , the common law and the constitutional framework of Canada.
Buset & Partners LLP is continually developing its expertise in the Environmental Assessment Act, Environmental Bill of Rights, 1993, Safe Drinking Water Act, 2002 , Environmental Protection Act , Brownfields' regulations, Ontario Water Resources Act , Nutrient Management Act and the Sustainable Water and Sewage Systems Act as well as new source protection legislation and federal environmental law counterparts, including Aboriginal law aspects.
Buset & Partners LLP works with several Northern municipalities to ensure compliance with the array of environmental legislation in all its transactions, and to defend against environmental liability and offences before tribunals and courts at all levels.
