What is the Boyd Report?
The government appointed Marion Boyd to review the Arbitration Act in the summer of 2004, and her report was made public in December of 2004. Boyd made 46 recommendations, not requirements, but even these do not protect or safeguard any rights. The Ontario Institute of Dispute Resolution, Ontario Association for Family Mediation and Family Mediation Canada, wrote to the Premier stressing that Boyd’s recommendations would not protect vulnerable people. Some people incorrectly read into her recommendations what is just not there.
