It’s time for Canada to get off the fence with NDAs

Canada remains unwilling to change despite growing visible public anger over the manipulation and obfuscation people experience with non-disclosure agreements.
NDAs exacerbate an existing power imbalance by requiring silence from the vulnerable, who are having to learn how to fight back, writes Julie Macfarlane.

At Can’t Buy My Silence, the advocacy organization campaigning for restrictions on non-disclosure agreements to cover up wrongdoing, we have received many, many messages from people who are being pressured to sign these agreements, which are now default in settlements for ...

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