BC's choice: Limit liability or limit competitiveness? From: Beyond Numbers | Date: October 1, 2001| Author: Rees, Richard | Copyright Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia Oct 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

One of the Institute's most important roles is to act as a voice on behalf of our membership. Limiting professional liability for CAs is one arena in which we've been speaking on your behalf While our message has gotten through partially on a federal level, we've been "shouting in the wilderness" provincially With a new government in place, we now hope to open a more constructive dialogue.

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